Growing up in Canada we had 25 packs of cigs in a thin cardboard package.
When I saw people in the US with their smaller and more paper-like packaging smacking their cigarette pacs before they open them. I always wondered WTF. We never did that.
What is this ritual actually accomplishing. I know cigarettes are bad but why are people spanking them before they smoke them?
Some say they are packing the tobacco and others are saying they are loosening it.
I guess this is the straight dope.......although nobody seems to agree. lol
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do...ly-work/100897