Quote (GreatMillenko @ Sep 22 2010 11:29pm)

Well, I've recently been being told more and more that I'm weird, or strange for this but it's kind of a ritualistic thing that I picked up from a friend a number of years ago.

When I buy a new pack of smokes, the first thing I do after packing, and opening said pack I will open, then flick the bottom of the pack and which ever cigarette sticks up the most I will pull out and put back in filter side down and dub it my "lucky smoke" which I ultimately smoke last, never ever failing to save it for last.

I haven't seen any actual "luck" come from it (none that is noticeable anyways) however I've seen smokers all over do this, so it cant just be a regional thing, does anyone maybe know where this tradition/superstition originated from?

Quote (Gthumb420 @ Sep 24 2010 12:07pm)

It will work if you believe, but smoking the cigarettes will not make you very lucky in the long run.

Quote (AiNedeSpelCzech @ Sep 24 2010 02:42am)

The origin actually involved that the lucky was one that you would bum out, and the purpose was that if everyone did it then there would always be someone to give you a cigarette when you really needed one, yourself. 

I'm pretty sure that they're called a lucky because soldiers were given standard issue Lucky Strikes, but that might just be misremembered/hearsay.

Quote (juliusjuice @ Sep 23 2010 07:36pm)

we have a squatter problem here. just tell them to go buy a pack, make them feel bad, they are lazy and depend on you for what they cannot afford.