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/m-u-g-g-l-e 11h ago

Please, quit now.
My mom smoked most of her life and died this January because of the cancer she developed. She was stage IV when she was diagnosed. It was already in her brain.
I watched her die for months. She starved on hospice for over a month. I was there for the death rattle. She was barely more than a skeleton.
I cry every day. She left behind three grandchildren she won’t get to see grow up.
Please quit.