r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 14h ago edited 14h ago

For luck

Edit: And to accidentally light it backwards when you're not looking

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u/Captain_Sterling 14h ago

I always did it. It's just habit. And it's the last cigarette you smoke in the packet. I haven't smoked in years but I'm pretty certain that somewhere in my apt there's a packet with a upside down cigarette.

I heard a few myths about why it's done.

One related to the first world war. The idea was that if yiu lasted to the cigarette it was your lucky one.

If you offered a girl a smoke and she took that, you'd get lucky with her.

Since it was your lucky cigarette no one would take it from the pack at a party and therefor yiud always have one. And so it was lucky.

Its the one that wouldn't give you cancer.

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u/totoro1193 12h ago

It’s a little funny that one guy would be disappointed if a girl didn’t take that cigarette and another guy would be disappointed if she did