[redman]

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.

[cooldude]

Most cigs don't distinguish between left-handed and right-handedness. A cig fits for everybody. Cigars too.

[Eddie H]

Originally Posted by redman just like throwing salt over your shoulder for luck.

You throw salt over your shoulder for luck? I thought salt was only for warding off evil spirits. What you been smoking? heh heh

[Thatsmoker1]

I do it, I don't understand the logic behind it all but when I got my first pack my mate told me to flip one and name it the 'lucky one' and I've just sort have kept doing it. The only thing I have noticed (much to my annoyance) is that the tobacco falls out over time and you end up with a shorter cigarette!

[PiccoloNamek]

My best friend does this with her cigarettes, and I just don't understand it. Especially considering that she is an otherwise super-rational skeptic. I certainly don't do it; what's the point?

[barfly]

Originally Posted by redman 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.

The sanitary explanation is just fine by me. I've seen lots of people that open the pack from the bottom and pick their next smoke from the open tobacco end. Construction workers do this all the time. People in the military do it. Farmworkers do it. I bummed a cig from a real "bum" one time and I picked from the bottom of that pack many years ago it was (38). If a lot of folks open the bottom end of the pack, maybe just as many folks flip around a few cigs from the top end too. WHY flip it around though? Just open from bottom and you don't ever have to worry about human fingers (other than your own) ever touching your filter.

[smokeonthewater]

hey folks ..iam new to this arena..thought i mite share some light on this... the reason one keeps a cigi upside down is the cigi has a prefect blend of tobacco.. if you peel one inner flap of the pack u will be able to see a no.. and if u count the cigi's from order you will be able to figure on the cigar and then turn it down to save the best for last....

[RaTt]

Actully why this is done, is back in the World war 2 era wile the soldiers where away on duty they would have a pack of smokes with them. When they opened their pack of smokes they would flip one up side down. It was known as a "lucky smoke," because if they made it to smoke that one, they were lucky. It was a refectory moment, to look back on the past and to feel relief that they were still alive.

Now a days thought this is where it was originated from it's lost its meaning like it did, most reason people flip their smoke is more of ritual, and its the "forbidden" smoke an idolized article that only the owner of the pack may smoke.

[Max420UK]

I sumtimes do this because Im a spliff smoker (large joint of marijuana mixed with tobak) and i use half a cig in my spliffs, so i will snap a smoke use the baccy in the joint and then stash the other half bacy side up to use again to roll another spliff. Anyone else here smoke spliff's?