White Lighter? Bad Luck?

Well i was at my friends house the other night, drinking and smoking when i go to light a bowl with a white lighter...

Apartently its bad luck to even hold a white lighter.. So my friend slapps it out of my hand and proceeds to stomp on it with his boot while yelling "GET THAT FUCKING BAD VOODOO LIGHTER OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!".. needless to say this isn't wasn;t a good thing to do with a lighter full of butane

BAM!!!! the lighter blows up in his kitchen and he says "FUCK DOOD I TOLD YOU THOSE THINGS WERE BAD LUCK... LOOK WHAT IT DID!!"

WHY ARE WHITE LIGHTERS considered back luck?

I did have a white lighter but does it count if you rip of the design on the lighter because if you buy those BIC lights some of them well I should say most of them have a design on them but really it is almost like a plastic sticker. When you rip it off under neath the lighter is white. So does it count or no.

I dont understand why they are bad luck. But i usually just use a black bic anyways.

I just found this on Urban Dictionary...

The real history to the white lighter myth and why they are unlucky is based on four famous and revolutionary musicians of the second half of the 20th century. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrex, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain were all left-handed, all died at the age of 27, and all their autopsies reported that a white bic lighter was found in their pockets. This is why it is said that white lighters are unlucky. So if you are 27 and left-handed, don’t use a white bic lighter, you will die.


I had a white bic once, and I got caught smoking by the po po while I was using it...I don't buy them anymore. lol

They've never been any bad luck for me. Mostly good times, actually.

thats a rumor around here i never heard it b4 movin to delaware. i lived in fl and ny too and never heard of it there

BreatheSmoke said:

I just found this on Urban Dictionary...

The real history to the white lighter myth and why they are unlucky is based on four famous and revolutionary musicians of the second half of the 20th century. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrex, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain were all left-handed, all died at the age of 27, and all their autopsies reported that a white bic lighter was found in their pockets. This is why it is said that white lighters are unlucky. So if you are 27 and left-handed, don’t use a white bic lighter, you will die.


I had a white bic once, and I got caught smoking by the po po while I was using it...I don't buy them anymore. lol

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Maybe this is true because my Mom found my white lighter and I got into some deep shit with friends and I had a white lighter on me.

whulkamania said:

Maybe this is true because my Mom found my white lighter and I got into some deep shit with friends and I had a white lighter on me.

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At least we didn't die like the definition so bluntly tells us.

BreatheSmoke said:

At least we didn't die like the definition so bluntly tells us.

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Haha yeah but watch something will happen tomorrow. Man now I will worry Haha.

everyone knows yellow lighters are bad luck.

ha i didnt know that about those four guys, sucks that they had white lighters, ill be sure not to have one any more....

dont belive the hype i use white lighters all the time haha no bad luck what so ever i dont belive in it but if you do maybe you will have bad luck with a white lighter muah

its only bad luck when it runs out and you have no other way of lighting up lol

actually the truth behind this is that when Jerry Garcia was found dead in the betty ford clinic he had a white lighter in his pocket for smoking cigs. Now maybe we should all get white lighters since Jerry was using one at the time of his death, but ill stick with superstition and stay away from those fuckers.

this info came from darkstar: the oral biography of Jerry Garcia

It's yellow lighters here in HTP.

You make your own luck. So there for, I just use the lighter closest to me that works. I figure, if it lights my bud it must be good

ha well i dont know about yellow lighters, i think that would look stupid. But i tried to explode my lighter when my friends said it was bad luck but it just bounced into the grass


the next day i was at the same friends house smoking and we had no lighters at all, and what do ya know? i went into the grass and found my white lighter, and we smoked a lot... so i guess its not bad luck after all.

i use whatever color lighter i find under the passenger seat in my car...if white lighters are so bad why did the statey at the checkpoint let me go? im sure when his light hit my eyes he could see the dilation from the blunt i lit with the white lighter i found under the seat....maybe you need to be the buying owner of the lighter, i only buy black or blue ones myself but i dont think i'll use that lighter anymore...its almost out lol

ive only had 1 white lighter story and it was bad i went 2 this kids basement after smokin a couple blunts and we still had about a quarter of mids left and we were gonna smoke the rest of it outta a nice ass bong right after we packed it nice and full his mom comes home and caught us. it sucked big time last time i'll ever use a white lighter again plus im left handed

i used white lighters for quite a wile before i even heard of any of this tomfoolery. i almost always use the bottom of my lighter to put out joints and ive been searched by the police (during the smoking of a bowl!) and they even let me keep the pipe. maybe i just have amazing luck but ive found nothing ive heard about white lighters to be true!