Originally Posted by cooldude  Yes, hello there, the reason people put one cigarette in upside down is because when someone bums a smoke from them, the person asking for a smoke reaches into the pack and pulls out the upside down smoke because people don't want you touching the filters of the other cigarettes in the pack. Nobody knows where your hand has been and they don't want you touching their smokes. If you bum a smoke from someone that has an upside down cig, you are supposed to grab that one by the tobacco end BECAUSE it is upside down. It is there for you that way on purpose. If nobody bums a smoke from that pack, the owner of the pack smokes it and then flips one over on the next pack. It don't have nothing to do with luck of the draw or such nonsense. It is for sanitary reasons. |
Did you think about what you just wrote or were you smoking 'left handed cigs?' Whoever reaches into your pack is gonna touch the rest of the cigarettes, even if one is upside down, they still have to touch the ones next to it to get ahold of it. The sanitary explanation doesn't hold water. It's just some old tradition that's been passed down, just like throwing salt over your shoulder for luck.