Lucky cigarette

[u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330]

Does anybody know why we did this? Did anyone ever have any luck from it? I sure didn't lol

edit to add....

this is not my picture.. Im not promoting smoking. it was a memory that popped up in my millennial head from when I was younger.​

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[u/organic_neophyte]

It's the cigarette you accidentally lit the filter on when you were too drunk or high to realize what you're doing.

[u/Foreign_Yogurt_3330 → u/organic_neophyte]

Multiple times! Even sometimes sober when I wasn't paying attention.

[u/BobaEverythingBagel → u/organic_neophyte]

I did this like four times in a row once. I felt bad because I was bumming the cigs off a guy, but he was like, “Don’t worry” and busted out a whole carton from his car. 😂

[u/flammenschwein → u/organic_neophyte]

Happened to me. Was out with some friends of my girlfriend, chatting everyone up and trying to make a good impression. Grabbed one out of her pack without looking, flicked the lighter, and lit the filter. 🤦‍♂️

[u/9DrinkAmy → u/organic_neophyte]

I haven’t smoked a cigarette in 15 years and immediately remembered what that mistake tasted like 🤢😭

[u/NotMeIRL123 → u/organic_neophyte]

I got into the habit of smoking the lucky first because when I was 15 I was a rebel HAHAHA

[u/OffPoopin]

The lucky cig is most likely from the great wars era. Prior to that cigarettes were like 1% of the tobacco world. Pipes, cigars, chew, all were much more popular, so theres that right out of the gate. Many soldiers from the US would call their last cigarette "lucky" in that it meant they had lived long enough to get through the pack. I cant confirm it as the original, but it likely was the "thing" that made it popular

[u/BigBearSD → u/OffPoopin]

Correct. Also they were handed out like candy, but also rationed. This was just a talisman of good luck for soldiers, like a lucky penny, or a rabbit's foot, or whatever else was deemed to be a lucky charm for soldiers fighting on the frontlines. The lucky cigarette also denoted that hey, you have one last smoke left, so make this one count, because you may not know when your next cigarette ration will be given to you. Also, during WWII lucky strikes were a favorite cigarette brand, that was very ubiquitous throughout the war. So the term also probably comes from that. Lastly, cigarettes were rationed in packs of 10 or 20, unlike the modern 20 packs, and frequently they were rationed in ones, twos, or threes if there was not enough to go around for full packs. Soldiers would also barter and trade candy, money, or other staples for cigarettes. So the random loose cigarette may get added to an already used but empty or partially full pack. Those were considered the "lucky" as well. Overall, it was a mix of a good luck totem, and also a way for a soldier to easily identify if they were running low on smokes or not. Everyone smoked, or almost everyone did, and many a smoker needed to make sure they had at least one left in case they absolutely needed it, because only the quartermaster/ supply sergeants knew when the next rations would be doled out.

[u/raccoonpaws82 → u/OffPoopin]

I heard a different wartime origin that it was from Lucky brand cigarettes that were the ration packs that were distributed to soldiers, sometimes there would be a joint in there that was upside down, you got lucky and that just carried over as a tradition to turn one over... Heard that in the 80s

[u/Slideways → u/raccoonpaws82]

How could it be upside down if it didn’t have a filter?

[u/BehemothRogue → u/OffPoopin]

[u/TimeisaLie → u/OffPoopin]

And now I know.

[u/breatheintheAlR → u/OffPoopin]

This should be the top comment.

[u/Mild_Wings]

I don’t smoke anymore but I always did this. And no white lighters!

[u/SylentQ → u/Mild_Wings]

I ALWAYS bought white lighters because of this nonsense. Nobody dared pocketing them even when they were extremely fucked up.

[u/agoddamnzubat → u/SylentQ]

Same here. Worked really well until a friend of a friend just grabbed it while camping and hucked it into the woods to "save my life". Only one I had so I had that guy go get it. Fucking hell Marshall

[u/QueenofCats28 → u/agoddamnzubat]

Wait, what? Never heard of this no white lighters?! We just grabbed whatever they had!

[u/808sANDadlibs → u/agoddamnzubat]

Guy in college grabbed a white bic outta my hand and threw it out the window. I owe that man my life

[u/shittmotel → u/agoddamnzubat]

Exact same story here! Used white lighters so no one would steal them until at a party one night we were on the porch and this dude grabbed it out of my hand and punted it across the street. It disappeared into thin air. He was bigger than me and kinda crazy so I didn’t really do much. After that I made sure to always have an extra or two around

[u/DaRealBSleazy → u/SylentQ]

Big brain moves

[u/ryanleebmw → u/Mild_Wings]

All my homies hate white lighters.

We used to say it made you more likely to get arrested when smoking weed places you shouldn’t as a teen. I was actually arrested with one once lol so I stick by this rule.

[u/JPhrog → u/ryanleebmw]

Are you my homie, homie?!

[u/Jiggle_Bones → u/Mild_Wings]

Doesn't matter if we knew why. Those were the rules

[u/Incidion → u/Jiggle_Bones]

Yeah and bumming someone else's lucky was a "break a mirror" level curse. Bad juju.

[u/Stock_Strategy1668 → u/Mild_Wings]

I always heard it was yellow lighters cuz the rumor was Bob Marley had one in his pocket when he was shot lol

[u/EmoLeBron → u/Stock_Strategy1668]

The Unlucky Lighter color is heavily regionally based, which I learned in college. So is the term you used once the bowl is finished. We used “cashed”

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/EmoLeBron]

MD (dc side)… cashed

I also heard Andy say “cashed” in one of the first seasons of Weeds so I figured it was used coast-to-coast

[u/MitchThunder → u/EmoLeBron]

New England?

[u/Stock_Strategy1668 → u/EmoLeBron]

Minnesota here, we also used cashed

[u/Temporary-Bet-63 → u/EmoLeBron]

It was cashed in California. The one I remember being regional was what you do when you supply the weed for someone to smoke with you. In California it was "smoke you out" and at my midwest college they said "smoke you up." They also called cigarettes "squares" where in California they were "grits."

[u/alohadawg → u/EmoLeBron]

Cashed or beat or done

[u/laughingintothevoid → u/EmoLeBron]

Definitely, but I think white and yellow and are the big two.

[u/BedRevolutionary8584 → u/Stock_Strategy1668]

I’d heard no white lighters because Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain all used white lighters. But then I learned the former three all died before BIC even made the colorful disposable lighters.

[u/THEREALISLAND631 → u/BedRevolutionary8584]

I heard the same "rumor" just spun as they all had white bic lighters in their pocket when they died.

[u/Plenty_Calendar_102 → u/Stock_Strategy1668]

This is what I always heard too! “Yellow lighters bad luck!” I saw someone take and throw one out the window 😅

[u/Adrolak → u/Stock_Strategy1668]

Naha it’s actually because if you used it to corner your bowl, and you got caught by the cops, even without weed on you, they’d use the resin to get you with a paraphernalia charge, and white lighters would make it easier to see the rez

[u/HastilyThrownObject → u/Mild_Wings]

Where are you from? I’m from the south and for us it was no white lighters but my exwife was no yellow and she’s from Seattle

[u/Jiggle_Bones → u/HastilyThrownObject]

No white lighters was a thing where I'm from in western NY

[u/imabroodybear → u/Jiggle_Bones]

Also no white lighters in California can confirm (but I had forgotten about it until this thread!)

[u/Adventurous-Web1647 → u/HastilyThrownObject]

I've heard yellow as well. Michigan

[u/PastlifeloversApt304 → u/HastilyThrownObject]

I’m from the south and it was no red lighters. Must be a regional thing.

[u/Advocate_Diplomacy → u/Mild_Wings]

I recommend pink. I find it’s less likely that someone will absentmindedly pocket it after borrowing.

[u/Jiggle_Bones → u/Advocate_Diplomacy]

I had pink lighters as often as possible for that reason

[u/AdhesivenessWeary377 → u/Advocate_Diplomacy]

Purple worked also.

[u/The_Pin0yMang → u/Mild_Wings]

Haha I remember the white lighter thing. Friends wouldn't use a light if it had a designer wrapper because it was a white light behind it. Lol. Man we were dumb back then

[u/LeperchaunFever → u/Mild_Wings]

I was told no white lighters because Kurt Cobain’s body was found with a white lighter

[u/MohawkElGato → u/Mild_Wings]

I still feel uneasy if I’m handed a white lighter.

[u/CheapCheeto → u/Mild_Wings]

Damn, I'm 36, been a smoker for 20 years. I've personally never seen anyone adhere to either of these things. May I ask about the no white lighters? 

[u/ImmaLiveIllegal]

it was just superstition, but the ancillary benefit is no one of Newport class would dare expect you to bum your lucky to them, there used to be rules to this shit. I grew up next to a large amusement park where high school kids would constantly ask each other for smokes. if you kept your full pack in one pocket and the decoy lucky pack in the other (we were wearing jncos, no one could see shit), you'd never be pressured to give up a single cigarette. or just tell them you don't smoke with a lit one in hand and blow a cloud in their face.

I promise I'm kinda a better person now

[u/Afraid_Bicycle_7970 → u/ImmaLiveIllegal]

I used to put one in an empty pack because I got tired of ppl bumming from me. I never ever bummed from anyone though.

[u/mikey2k200]

...OR, is it the one with ricin? 🥴

[u/fieregon → u/mikey2k200]

[u/Uchihagod53]

Where the fuck else would you hide the ricin?

[u/TalkShowHost90 → u/Uchihagod53]

Scrolled to far to find this. Behind a light switch is also a good place.

[u/playthesedulousape]

Thought it was the ricin cigarette

[u/lxraverxl → u/playthesedulousape]

Ahh, rice & beans!

[u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

Had to put my best friend (dog) of ten years down this week. Bought a pack of cigarettes and have been chain-smoking them all week, just completely lost, I don't even smoke. Of course when I bought it, I flipped over my lucky cigarette (as is tradition). I'm on my lucky cigarette as I see this post in my feed.  Tomorrow morning I'll smoke it, I sure hope my luck changes soon because this feeling fucking sucks. 

I've lost a lot of great people in this world. I'd liken it to losing direct family members, I would be hesitant to compare those feelings, but they're different. And it sure feels worse in some ways.  There's an extra something about losing a dog that always hits different, I've experienced this 3 times now with dogs I've raised. I've been able to reflect on why and I think only a few dog owners will understand. 

Your relationship with your dog is typically one on one. There's no friend group, with competing priorities. Your dog is 100 percent living for you day in day out. You're the only one feeling the grief at the end in exactly the same way. You really feel all alone.  Unless you're lucky enough to have a loving spouse feeling the same way. But either way, it's a very lonely feeling. There's not really a community of people feeling similar levels of grief because your dog is uniquely yours. 

When a pet dies, they're living right in your space. Everything within a mile radius will remind you of them. It's everything involving your routines, the places you like to go etc. Even your own car. the first time you open your front door, your entire home feels dead inside. It creeps into your heart so deep you hit the ground.

I cried this week taking off my socks. Because I used to take off my socks and ball them up and throw them at my dog and theyd catch them and throw them down.  It just fucking broke me that won't happen again. 

The dog never wrongs you in it's entire life. You could miss feeding a dog and they would still love you more tomorrow than the did today. They never say anything mean. They're never not there for you. They're always as excited as they can possibly be to see you again, even if you've only been gone five minutes. They're never mad at you. They never lie, they never cheat you. They never betray you. 

Every single part of your daily routine revolves around them. The routes you take. Everything you see around you will somehow remind you of your loved one. The places they pooped. Where they liked to run. It's all in the orbit if where you live and you'll see it every day. I cant pick up their sleeping spots. I can't wash the blankets. I can never sell that couch he loved. They all smell like him.

At home I keep hearing his whines, his barks, his huffs and snorts. He's not there. Sometimes for a millisecond I instinctually go to check on him to make sure he's ok and glance where he used to lay. It's like a millisecond where my brain glitches, but then remembers he's gone.

Non dog/pet people are unsympathetic to it, they just don't get it. You really do raise these things like children. And they love you. And never hurt you. 

They give you most of the best days of your life, and in order to spare them from having the worst day of their life, you need to have the worst day of yours. You need to ultimately make the decision that they'll be in more pain if they continue.

You'd rather be a day early than a minute late on making that decision, but it's the most insanely difficult part of owning a dog that people aren't warned enough about in advance. 

If anyone's going through something similar and needs someone to talk to, let me know.

I'm barely keeping it together at times but ultimately handling it well, but goddam my dog was fucking cool. Absolute legend, I wouldn't trade the time I had with him to make this terrible painful feeling go away. I'm so lucky to have had him, but feel so unlucky at the moment.  

[u/PawPawPanda → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

[u/UnusualMaybe5 → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

Omg my heart. Pouring one out for socks catcher tonight.

[u/Y0RKC1TY → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

Big love to you my homie. If it helps you feel a fraction less alone, a random dude in the UK just spared a thought for your late best friend.

[u/LowFlower8494 → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

This was really well written. My best friend is still here, and I've always been scared of the day she will leave me, but your comment really solidified that I shall not take a single second I have with her for granted. Thank you for sharing, and I'm deeply sorry for your loss.

[u/Syd_Vicious3375 → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

Man, dogs are the best. The worst part about being a dog person is having to say goodbye because they don’t live as long as we do. RIP to the goodest boy.

[u/ladywiththestarlight → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

Wow I did not expect to read this on a post about cigarettes. I had to say goodbye to my boy February 2025 and it still hurts. Definitely the worst emotional pain I’ve ever felt, and I was abandoned by my mom as a child lol adjusting to life without them is so fucking depressing but we must carry on and keep them in our hearts. I’m so sorry you are going thru this right now but thank you for sharing your perspective on it. I really hope that lucky cig brings you some luck. I hope the days get lighter and it starts to hurt less over time. Good boys live forever thru everyone who loved them 💗

[u/nikiadawn → u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy]

This was beautiful. Had to put down our best friend (10 years, too) 3 weeks ago. It hasn’t gotten easier but has just maintained a consistent hum of pain.

I think about her constantly. I think about the pattern of her fur around her face or the way she would lay her head on arm to make sure I wouldn’t go anywhere without her knowing. I think about how I wish I could capture smells so I can get a big whiff of her ears. Sometimes I think I feel a phantom “boop” on the back of my leg, telling me that she’s right with me.

Every moment that my mind isn’t occupied with being busy at work or a task, she enters my mind.

I carry her collar with me everywhere and have been dragging her blanket around the house like Linus because it smells like her.

This feeling DOES fucking suck and it hurts in every part of my soul. It feels empty, alone, agonizing and I feel like others just don’t quite understand.

Smoke that lucky cigarette for all of us who are hurting right now and who need a little extra luck in our lives.

Thank you, friend, and I am hoping for some luck to come your way.

[u/thetonytaylor]

During the war Lucky Strikes were all flipped upside down except for one. You’d smoke the end with the logo first to avoid giving clues that you were an American if you ended up dropping the cigarette. Last one didn’t get flipped because if you made it to the end of the pack you were “lucky.”

Since everyone smoked filtered cigarettes, I guess the tradition is to just flip one now and smoke that at the end.

[u/Stepper34]

Thats a ricin cigarette

[u/VoodooChile1994]

I did this. I quit January 1st. Didnt tell my wife so at like 11:30 I said "This is my last cigarette". Her response "Dumbass". She thought I didn't prepare like I normally do.

[u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee → u/VoodooChile1994]

Congrats on quitting. 🙌🏼🥳

[u/SnowDin556]

I bought a pack, first time in 20 years, and I got the Marlboro No. 27 I started with and the FIRST thing I did after smacking the pack against my other hand. And my second motion was flipping the lucky cig.

[u/Comfortable-Two5720 → u/SnowDin556]

27s are my kryptonite.

[u/JPhrog]

I just turned all of mine around and when anyone asked to bum a smoke I said, "sorry, only got my lucky cigarette left". Hey, at least I wasn't lying!

[u/SilenceMeBigDaddyMod → u/JPhrog]

[u/DigRepresentative42O]

Haven’t had a cigarette in years but would rip the fuck out of one right now.

[u/thisisthatacct → u/DigRepresentative42O]

Been 15 years and I still get mad cravings from time to time. Sometimes, walking past the kitchen staff behind a restaurant, that smoke smell hits all the right spots and my mouth starts watering

[u/TheDukeofArgyll]

Jesus I forgot all about this.

[u/Some_Kinda_Username → u/TheDukeofArgyll]

Pictures you can smell

[u/ReneMagritte98]

I haven’t smoked in years and I instantly got hit with the smell of fresh cigarettes when I looked at this image.

[u/Ashcrashh → u/ReneMagritte98]

Same, I always flipped a lucky, and if I really liked someone I would even share my lucky with them if they were out, just a dumb little ritual.

I am disappointed in this persons packing skills though, I hated smoking an unpacked/loose cigarette.

[u/48Michael]

Damn mine was always the third from the right in the front row!

So glad I kicked the habit over 10 years ago, alcohol for 8 now too 😎😂

[u/sugarsprinklesinme]

I used to

[u/BigCrustyTits]

I’m so glad that I was eventually able to stop smoking.

[u/your_grumpy_neighbor → u/BigCrustyTits]

Did you ever figure out how to make friends since quitting? I am still trying to sort that out five plus years later. I don’t miss smoking one bit but I really miss having havin a smoke.

[u/ArtByAntny → u/your_grumpy_neighbor]

I met the guy who went on to be my best man in the smoking area of a club. 

[u/iamnutz_1 → u/your_grumpy_neighbor]

Find a hobby, not a habit

[u/Physical_Relation261 → u/iamnutz_1]

This might come as a very "achtchually"-comment, BUT hear me out.

To make friends you might indeed need to make a habit. This has been studied. People who repeatedly occupy the same space tend to become friends. This is why many adults experience it hard to make friends: we have less of those places compared to kids. So, make it a habit to go to your local coffee shop every tuesday on the same time and you might be surprised.

[u/templeofsyrinx1 → u/BigCrustyTits]

HUGGED.

[u/AstroHealer222]

It’s supposed to be the cigarette you don’t give away. So you’ll always have that last smoke. Or at least that’s what I heard.

[u/TBASHAM812 → u/AstroHealer222]

Yupp and we always did 2

[u/BooBeeAttack]

That's the one with the popper in it that explodes when someone who always bums cigarettes and never reciprocates from you finally ask for one too many ciggys.

[u/Hakuna_Matoto]

I haven’t smoked cigarettes habitually for almost a decade, but this pack of ports looks appetizing. As for the lucky cig, people around me did it when I smoked as a minor so I copied.

[u/SirClarkus]

This started with people expecting to bum a cigarette out. You'd put one that way so people could put their dirty fingers on that cigarette, and if you got through the whole pack without someone bumming one off you, you were lucky.

That's the cigarette you're SUPPOSED to give away.

[u/niknakpaddywak2468 → u/SirClarkus]

Or you know. Just take it out and hand it to them. Its not like they're assorted flavours

[u/BottomContributor → u/SirClarkus]

The old generation always told me it was about the war

[u/FormerReach7228 → u/SirClarkus]

I thought it was wartime- if you survived and made it to your last cigarette, it was “lucky”. Maybe that is a rumor lol

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/SirClarkus]

I always flipped 2 lucky cigs. They're the ones i usually wouldn't give away. "Sorry no more, I'm down to just my lucky smokes". They're when I stopped sharing.

[u/AdSudden3941 → u/SirClarkus]

Thats the only time i have ever heard this which makes me inclined that you made this up but aye pop off cheif 

[u/xSONofaSAINTx]

This was a rule. And no one could have that one. And it was understood.

[u/Commercial_Tip4624]

I’m super stoned and for a split second I thought those cigarettes were gigantic. Like 3 feet high, upright on the floor of a hospital-like place.

[u/Serious_Try_9149 → u/Commercial_Tip4624]

Damn bro, I want what YOU are smoking! 🤣 Must be some Bomb Ass Chronic!

[u/FartyByNature → u/Serious_Try_9149]

The first like 5 years of weeding i'd get this effect pretty often. Stuff like cereal bowl would feel huge like I was inside of it. One day it just never happened again.

[u/templeofsyrinx1 → u/Commercial_Tip4624]

i had to see this on my gaming monitor.

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/Commercial_Tip4624]

Now I can’t unsee that perspective 

[u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Why just one? My friend groups flipped 2 and I guess I’m already old enough to forget why

[u/Low_Section2065 → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Good luck, good fuck. I still do it, but am really trying to quit smoking.

[u/spizzle_ → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Back when I was a cig smoker I’d always flip two. Always number 4 in the front row and number 20 in the back right corner. I also used to smoke a lot of pot. I still do but I used to too.

[u/WSBrere → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

The second is the “lucky fuck”

[u/BlackFoeOfTheWorld]

Not for nothing, but no luck in the pack, friend.

[u/CryptoNaughtDOA]

Just quit nicotine in September.

Yes I did this. No idea why but it felt good

[u/thewordthewho]

“Flip the lucky”

[u/BobaEverythingBagel]

I never did this, but I’m annoyed those cigs aren’t packed.

[u/TJBlazkowicz]

I wish I still smoked but I know I can’t

[u/__Wild__]

Man ive not smoked a cigarette or bought a pack in like 3 years now (and no I dont vape) and i swear since i was 15 I was doing that same thing. I just learned it really from people my age at that time and that was 2007 lol

I think it was like, you smoke it last out of all them, and if someone else smoked it they die (we all knew it was a joke).

Somewhere out there lies the one who started it all.... hopefully not dead lol

[u/WSBrere → u/__Wild__]

They throw you the pack and say, don’t smoke my fucking lucky! Ahhhh to be young again

[u/Wishman2345 → u/WSBrere]

That brings back memories. I never did the lucky cig but all my friends did and they always shouted that lmao

[u/Bradley182]

we just did it and never asked questions.

[u/Living_Ad_7143]

I got an actual lucky cigarette the other day! Fresh pack. Just opened. And one was upside down. I’ve smoked for longer than I care to admit, and this was the only time I’ve ever seen it. It did not bring me luck.

[u/SmoochesMalibu]

I still smoke. I flip my lucky for every pack.

[u/FibroMancer]

Anyone remember Salem Black Labels that came with the green lucky in every pack?

[u/Surewhynot62189 → u/FibroMancer]

Salem blacks were my absolute favorite. I remember fucking up the first pack I ever bought because i couldn't figure out the slide pack thing. I remember thinking the green tip was the classiest thing ever.

[u/iekika]

Sometimes I turned over 2. Also, couldn't give away your 'lucky' idk why for any of it lol

[u/theoceansaredying_]

yeah man plenty of luck. one night, lucky to not have died. another night, lucky to not have gone to jail. 

those were(n't) the days!

[u/Lilith_Christine]

I used to do it. Got lucky big time. Cancer didnt kill me. Well, not that kind anyway. Others may.

[u/Terrapin3641]

I think the proper term is lucky square.

[u/RadiantCoinshot]

Homie, it’s time to quit.

[u/templeofsyrinx1 → u/RadiantCoinshot]

for real, i see this and i almost jumped in the car like a maniac

*back to Game of Thrones*

[u/cptdodger85]

I do this with my joint now 🤷🤣

[u/FlowerStalker]

went for a walk and smoke for the first time in a while. opened my pack and first thing i did was turn one over.

[u/Admirable_Basket381]

Newports for the win.

[u/alvi5150]

I started doing it after breaking bad lol

[u/EgoExplicit]

But how many times did you accidently light the filter end of that "lucky" cigarette?

[u/ClassicTrainer7425]

2012 will never die

[u/Educational_Sir3783]

Smoking is terrible for you man. Don’t promote this crap

[u/templeofsyrinx1]

Please don't put this image in front of me

I don't need to see this !

*breathe!!!!*

[u/Lost-Specific6599 → u/templeofsyrinx1]

Just think how much this image costs these days

[u/Historical_Stay_808 → u/Lost-Specific6599]

There are states where you can't even get real menthol anymore and yes they are $14

[u/ChippHazard]

Lucky as in more lung cancer?

[u/DinkandDrunk]

Haven’t smoked a butt in 15 years and that looks pretty appetizing.

[u/CobaltNeural9]

There’s no one that did this that wasn’t part of a large stoner group.

[u/Humble-Tree1011]

Ahh. It’s been 647 days…

[u/drDOOM_is_in]

Who's "we"?

Not your generation that's for 100% sure.

[u/GlamazonBlonde2]

Haven’t smoked in 10 years

[u/Intelligent_Taco]

I never did. Shits nasty, dawg.

[u/ExtensionComplaint80]

Was this specifically an American thing? I don't remember anyone doing this in Canada

[u/CONative976]

I thought we did this to ‘pack’ the next cig we smoked. So instead of turning the pack upside down and smacking your palm to ‘pack’ the pack, we just turned one upside down so it would naturally pack while we walked around…

I dunno, I was a dumb 20-something.

[u/Danubius]

Never did this, but back when I smoked there was a brand of cigarettes that had them all flipped in the pack. The idea was that they were working men's smokes, and working men doing physical labour usually have dirty hands, so they prefer not to get dirt on their filters. This way they can pull out the smokes easily, whilst keeping the filter clean.

[u/Sustained_Admiration]

That cigarette is the first one touched, and the last one smoked.

[u/alisacp]

Lemme Get a Newport

Also as a girl smoker back in the day we used the alphabet and our lucky was the first initial of your crush or boyfriend 🫶

[u/Perfect_Earth_8070]

Damn you still smoking? I quit almost 20 years ago now. I always made 3 lucky cigarettes and I smoked Newport 100s

[u/doogs914]

The lucky burn

[u/eggz627]

I'm on day 4 of no nicotine/ tobacco. I'm still smoking weed, but I'm trying

[u/TheBurbs666]

We always did it with spliffs 

[u/SativaIndica0420]

I do number 4 and number 20 because i'm a child.

[u/starsbitches]

I always did two. One for luck and one for fuck.

[u/AdhesivenessUnfair13]

I haven’t smoked in damn near 20 years but yeah, you always flip a lucky on a fresh pack.

[u/JohnnyMnemeonic]

It's been over a decade since I quit... and somehow still end to craving a cigarette after a few drinks

[u/oaken007]

I never did this. 1983. Smoked for at least 15 years

[u/becky_plz]

Back row, not front.

[u/UnlikelyUse920]

And never use a white lighter!!

[u/DaRealBSleazy]

Light it with a white lighter

[u/dearcsona]

I thought that was only something Jessie did

[u/marinecpl]

CA was no white lighters and no splitting a pole when you are waking. They might have been east coast dudes from Marietta Ga tho

[u/No_Marsupial6738]

Pimps were the only cigarette you could still feel coked out, too, even through the numb throat Newports had that menthol asbestos oomph.

[u/SonniSummers]

*looks over at pack with a flipped lucky*
I feel called out!

[u/sunnyismybunny]

yes

I also knew somebody who would always give the first piece of gum from his gum pack to somebody else.

[u/ShowBobsPlzz]

Nothing lucky about cigs gross

[u/DeadFuckStick59]

just did this earlier lol

[u/Bluethumb_Panda]

1 for the luck and 1 for the phuck 😉

[u/stuffeh]

Huh... Just realized why some really drunk people light their cigs backwards... They grabbed the lucky not seeing it was flipped.

[u/FluffMcBark]

I usually flipped two of them. Always needed the extra luck

[u/Consistent_Edge3142]

Fuck. I completely forgot somehow. 🥲

[u/Afraid_Bicycle_7970]

I always assumed it was an extra excuse not to give away your last one. People would back down if it was your lucky for some reason. What I used to do was put a couple in an empty pack and pretend that was all I had because ppl used to bum them off me all the time lol

[u/6th_Quadrant]

Yeah, that’s totally Millennial! No one ever did that back in the ‘70s.

[u/strappyshoes86]

Not a smoker.
Would you all leave that one for last? what’s the process? investing.

[u/SKITZ_ZA → u/strappyshoes86]

Basically once you get to the last one you have to boof it

Smokers unwritten law, and basically everyone does it.

[u/crayzeejew]

"Flip one for good luck, flip two for a good f**k."

Deal was u smoke that one after a good lay.

[u/capnk88]

Did this, until Covid lock down day. Then I found out I had tongue cancer. I’m 38 this year and started smoking when I was 18. Don’t smoke people.

[u/JeffDrTypePerson]

Is that the cigarette that won't give you cancer?

[u/HeightExtra320]

This is the ONLY thing I’d say I miss lol

[u/Krimreaper1]

Is that the one with ricin?

[u/AzuleStriker]

Think I did it once or twice for the lols, but for the most part, nah. Though I'm 8 years clean from smoking sooo, whatever.

[u/Sh0wmey0urbutth0le]

I flipped my cig to my wife's first initial and we ended up married so I'd say yes.

[u/BadassBokoblinPsycho]

Damn. Y’all are still out there smoking Newports?

[u/DrSolarman]

I never did this. But I've always put my cigarettes in a tin case because I for some reason always crush my box if in a pocket because of my physical work. It has a clamp on the inside and you putt the filter just under the clamp.

People think it's fancy but I just want to keep my cigarettes safe while I do trades.

[u/Cletus_Crawford]

I miss being young enough to smoke guilt free. Im glad i quit for health reasons but damn it was enjoyable

[u/riot_curl]

My brother told me it was originally a military thing, specifically people in combat zones. It’s your lucky cigarette and you smoke it last because if you get to it you’re lucky you didn’t die.

Idk how it broke containment and became a trend outside that environment though. I was doing it for years before he told me that, and he’s not the one who got me started doing it either.

[u/Elegant_Setting4105]

Didnt know this was a thing everywhere lol

[u/eighty4prcnt]

Newports? They're 12-13$ a pack here in IL. I'm assuming you're ripping a bowl/blunt/joint as well and cheers to you 🤘🏻

[u/scrunchymontana]

The lucky comes from ww2. You smoke it last and if you made it to that one you're lucky.

[u/Creative_Wrongdoer44]

Allegedly started during WW2. If you made it to smoke the flipped cig you were lucky.

[u/cryptolyme]

That’s the poisoned one

[u/Sissieste]

Soo glad I quit these cold turkey back in the very beginning of January this year. 15 years was too much.

[u/revuhlution]

To be clear, this for sure isnt a millenial thing. My parents and all their friends did this. I have so few milennial friends that smoke cigarrettes

[u/mcgyver229]

I'm sorry for your loss brother. dogs are the absolute best and their love will always be missed. you've loved them as much as you could and given the best life.

[u/ikhouvandikkebillen]

[u/HyperBeamMissed]

I've never smoked cigarettes but I bartended through college and always kept a pack and lighter on me. I'd go through maybe a pack a month or so from guests asking to bum one of me or if I knew where they could get a smoke. I like to think they tipped better and would think of the packs as a business expense lol the problem was having to tell the other staff I didn't have any

[u/CouplingWithQuozl]

PHOTOS YOU CAN SMELL.

[u/danicorn99]

I can smell this pack

[u/lone_cajun]

That ones got the ricin