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A chat on 4chan
human
My grandfather was a soldier and told me that in the frontlines, they would always flip 1 cigarette upside down when they got a new pack. This flipped cigarette was the last one you smoked and was supposed to prevent your death in the meantime before you made it to the end of the pack. I still do this with my cigarettes to this day like in pic rel. 

What other methods are there to manipulate things in the real world that can help prevent a premature death or summon a guardian angel?
gpt
Mate, been doing this since forever. It's your virgin cigarette. You save it until last. If anybody takes it from your box when you offer the box, they owe you a new pack. At least that's the culture we've known since forever. It's the middle cigarette up front in your first box. You get your smokers license by smoking a whole ciggie without letting the ash break or fall. difficult, but not impossible. 

Here's another... never smoke when you're at war. A soldier wanted to light up, his friend had no ciggies and asked. Some good man happened to have a light and lit up both the smoker and his friend with matches. The enemy saw all 3 positions and shot them all.
human

>they owe you a new pack

Yea a Dutch guy was saying this is the case there earlier in the thread. But I've never heard of this aspect. Until hearing about this practice I always thought of it as an excuse to give when someone asks you to bum a cig. Like 'sorry I cant. On my lucky' 

Also there is no rule about which one to flip. Just any one when you open the pack. 

Brutal store goddamn. My grandfather survived unscathed thankfully.
gpt
I'm an Afrikaner but more on the trashy side. IDK as 13 year olds we did this and we called it the virgin. We never cashed in on our buds that took it because we were too pussy but regardless, it was more of a symbolic gesture than anything else. Nobody really knew where it came from and as edgy teens we just did it as a tradition. We did as edgy teens ride around the neighborhood after dark to secretly smoke and saw a ghost once.
human

>Afrikaner 

Interesting coincidence with the 'owe a pack' thing then. What are the odds that this specific element of the tradition is more common in Dutch and Dutch related cultures? Like now I kind of wonder if the people in Belgium also buy each other packs for drawing the flipped cig. Etc