Why is lighting three cigarettes with a single matchstick considered to be unlucky?
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ANSWERS: 6
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Lighting one cigarette with a single match is also unlucky, and stupid
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During the war (I'm not sure which) the soldiers would not light more than 3 Cigarettes with the one match as the light would be seen by the enemy.
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According to Wikipedia: Three on a Match is a supposed superstition among soldiers during the First World War. The superstition goes that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed. Since then it has been considered bad luck for three people to share a light from the same match. The idea was that when the first soldier lit his cigarette the enemy would see the light, when the second soldier lit his cigarette the enemy would take aim, and when the third soldier lit his cigarette the enemy would fire. There was in fact no such superstition during the First World War. The superstition was invented about a decade later by the Swedish match tycoon Ivar Kreuger in an attempt to get people to use more match. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_on_a_Match_(superstition)
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You are smoking too fast.
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In the battlefield, when you light the first cigarette, the enemy takes notice. When the same matchstick gets to the second cigarette, the enemy takes aim. When the matchstick gets to the third cigarette ... bang!
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Because you are killing yourself 3 times quicker...!
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