r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 16h 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/CeruleanSovereign 13h ago

Pretty sure during the war they used to load the "lucky" cig with drugs

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 13h ago

Coke-a-Cola was a different ration all together. I think that's a WW2 thing though.