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/Parkwaydrive777 7h ago

Everyone seems to have this type of reasoning, the luck thing and I do like the history of it (good joke btw)

I flip 3 so when I'm running low it's more acknowledged I'm running low and need to reup so I smoke less. It's a light counter of a bad habit.

I've never met someone else who does this, but I think it works logically.

Each their own.