Do you follow the superstition to never light the third cigarette with a match?

Question

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

We always did, yes. Not that many smoke in the service anymore and that's where that came from.

Comments

I heard the custom came from trench warfare, probably in WW1.  By the time the third guy on the match lit up at night, the enemy sniper had time to get a bead on him and shoot.

Answer 3

I don't even light the first cigarette... I don't smoke.

Comments

That's the story we were always told. I never smoked and no one uses matches any more any way!

Answer 4

I do the much more sound thing of not smoking cigarettes

Answer 5

I don't know till now about this. I don't want people to spend such things among public or to the new generation. Here, if a cat before your path then its a bad luck for you. This makes some people not to own a cat.

Comments

Here in the US, it is bad luck only if a black cat crosses your path; other cat colors are harmless.

On the other hand, if the cat happens to be a tiger, then it probably doesn't matter what its coloration is.