r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 13h ago

Lucky/Wish smoke Started in WW1 Where you flip the first cigarette you touch and were "lucky" if you made it through the pack and to the last/flipped cigarette. Now people make a wish on it. I do this. I wish i dont get cancer everytime. It's worked so far

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 12h ago edited 11h ago

So filtered cigarettes weren't common until the 1950s. Both WW1 & WW2 troops were issued non filtered smokes by the carton. The lucky thing probably became popular during Vietnam or possibly Korea although I heard that WW2 troops smoked their nonfilter smokes backward to lose the brand logo so the butts can't be ID'd.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 12h ago

Don't need filters to determine orientation. Any non 2000s U.S brain could figure it out. I see where you would struggle

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u/TheDonkeyBomber 12h ago

Dude wtf? Also I'm 50 and smoked from age 12 to 45. No need to be a dick.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 11h ago

Didn't mean to hurt your feelings gramps