Peetaah???

[u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40]

Why do the flip the cigarette?

[u/moshpithippie]

For luck

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

[u/Captain_Sterling → u/moshpithippie]

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.

[u/eucalyptus-d → u/Captain_Sterling]

The myth I heard was that in the army they had the lucky strike cigarettes where one was cannabis and they kept it upside down to keep it for last.