Smoking
Back when I used to smoke, on buying a new fresh pack of 20, I always took one out of the pack, turned it upside down and out it back in. I then kept that one till last.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:56, 10 replies)

I have known lots of people who do that
Why? Where does this come from?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:58, closed)

it comes from the people who smoked before you
and is apparently lucky. you know how it is, you take up something after someone else and see that they do something so you copy it, or because they say it is lucky. They got it from someone else in a similar way.

one of those stupid things that loads of people do for no reason. I always made a point of not doing it and would turn other peoples single upside down cigarette the right way up
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:00, closed)

Yeah - I used to turn all the cigarettes upside down of anyone who didn't do it.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:01, closed)

It's a "Lucky" cigarette, and originates from the First World War.
Cigarettes only came in packs of 10 then, and you'd open a pack, turn one upside down and smoke it last, because if you lived long enough to do so, you were lucky.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:00, closed)

some died of lung cancer mid pack :(

(waxdart hello., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, closed)

How is the upside down one more lucky?
Surely if you buy a pack of ten, and smoke 9, the remaining one is 'lucky'
I appreciate entertainment could be pretty limited in teh Wartime, but still...
(Rogerthepussy, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:35, closed)

No - you were lucky if you lived long enough to smoke the tenth.
The cigarette wasn't lucky - you were lucky to live that long.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:28, closed)

Me too.
It was just something people used to do at 6th form that caught on.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:00, closed)

Ouch.
I remember doing this. The problem comes when your cunted and at a night club.

Taking out the "lucky" fag, inserting it filter out in your gob, lighting it, and taking a big pull of burning filter IS NOT LUCKY! IT'S FUCKING PAINFUL!
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:18, closed)

oh I did this a couple of times, then I was in a car wreck
and my cousin died

I don't do that anymore
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 20:00, closed)