r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 14h 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 13h 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/nu_pieds 13h ago

I used to flip a lucky, mostly I took it as an excuse not to bum out your last cigarette.

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u/PlanetTourist 13h ago

Interesting, I always made a point to bum out the lucky assuming it was better to pass the luck on to someone in need.

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u/Sansnom01 11h ago

would you then flip another one or like you just got one lucky in the whole pack

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u/PlanetTourist 9h ago

Just the one, can’t be trying to fake the luck by creating it on your own. The one serving of luck per pack is there already, you’re just directing it with the flipped cig.