[smokybear]

i've see some people with two lucky cigarettes turned upside down, and i had one girl tell me whomever she was with when she smoked her lucky cigarette, was bound to get "lucky" with her... :-)

[Sir smokey]

Horoscope and psychic chicks? Germaphobia? A reminder? Being stingy with your last grit? All are uber retarded answers to this urban legend. Here's the real story, this is coming from my grandpa who was in the 1st world war-
-Soldiers would flip a smoke upside down whenever they got a new pack, and if they made it to the last "lucky" cigarette then they were LUCKY to still be alive.-
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[sheanc]

goes back to vietnam its suppose to be lucky and when someone was killed in combat when they raided the body for supplys and cigs they would leave the lucky one because it would be bad luck for the person who took it

[Devon Andrews]

I've tried to bum a cigarette before from somebody that only had one left, and they told me that was their "lucky cigarette" and they wouldn't even smoke it themselves until they got a new pack.

[Ethan]

as a smoker who does this it seems a lot of people here are getting the actual tradition wrong. When someone who does this buys a pack the first thing they do is flip one cigarette upside down, this is your lucky smoke and is the absolute last cig you smoke, so it has nothing to do with hygene. Furthermore most people wont bum out their lucky. Some people actually flip two upside down, one as their lucky (last) smoke, the other as their lucky f***. Theres not really any reason why people do it, its just tradition.
As for how it got started, nobody seems to know for sure. Some attribute it to some rumor that lucky strikes use to include a joint in some packs as a true "lucky strike", but that seems a bit farfetched. The story of soldiers overseas smoking their cigs backwards to burn the label so that the enemy wouldnt know they had been there is true but it wouldnt explain why only one cig is flipped nowadays.
Honestly I'm surprised more smokers dont know about it, its common the world over. I've talked to a german, swiss, australian and ukranian smoker and all of them do it too.

[the iron horse]

One reason I love a non-filter Lucky.

[Brandi14]

I always wondered myself why smokers used to do that. The first theory I heard was by far the most believable. My brother in laws says you flip a cigarette when you first open a pack and call it "your lucky" because thats the cigarette you smoke after you "get lucky". HA! but I flip one or two sometimes three.I flip a cigarette for someone who has been in my thought a lot lately or someone closed to me that has passed. People get very superstitious about luckys though.

[randomquestion]

Hi, I bought a pack today and I found the middle one in the front row already turned upside down. it's a little strange and I found a post online for someone who also had this happen to them in 2007 but I'm wondering how common this is and would appreciate some opinions on what to do with that mystery cigarette, any ideas??

[gatrman56]

cooldude , I used to do it all the time,
like your saying.....for sanitary purposes only.
Im and have been a mechanic all my life and
never wanted anybodies greasy fingers all over
my smokes....I'd tell em grab the one thats upside
down so as not to get grease on the others....Dont
do it much anymore cause not many people ask to
bum .....

gatrman56