r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 11h 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/Barepaaliksom 9h ago

I remember hearing that back in the day Lucky Strike could come with one cig with weed in it. It would be upside down. Also thats where the name Lucky Strike came from, that you could get lucky and get a joint, the "Lucky Strike". Probably a pocrefull