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Cigarettes Don't Expire, But Smokers Do - Wolf Reaction Meme

This meme is a two-part collage combining a Google search screenshot and the popular three-wolves reaction template. The top section shows a Google search for the question "do cigarettes expire", with a satirical search result answer: "No, cigarettes don't expire, but the person smoking them does. Oct 27, 2006". This uses dark wordplay on the term "expire"—for products it means reaching a shelf-life end, while for living beings it means death, to highlight the health risks of smoking. The bottom section uses the three-wolves meme template, with each wolf labeled to represent different reactions: 1. Left wolf: "Smokers" with an angry, open-mouthed expression, reacting negatively to the joke. 2. Middle wolf: "Non-smokers" with a neutral, unimpressed look, indifferent to the quip. 3. Right wolf: "The person that wrote this" with a smug, amused expression, proud of the dark joke.
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Smokers
(Angry, shouting reaction)
Non-smokers
(Neutral, unimpressed reaction)
The person that wrote this
(Smug, amused reaction)

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Search Query: do cigarettes expire
Search Result: No, cigarettes don't expire, but the person smoking them does. Oct 27, 2006

Overview

This meme is a two-part collage combining a Google search screenshot and the popular three-wolves reaction template. The top section shows a Google search for the question "do cigarettes expire", with a satirical search result answer: "No, cigarettes don't expire, but the person smoking them does. Oct 27, 2006". This uses dark wordplay on the term "expire"—for products it means reaching a shelf-life end, while for living beings it means death, to highlight the health risks of smoking. The bottom section uses the three-wolves meme template, with each wolf labeled to represent different reactions:
1. Left wolf: "Smokers" with an angry, open-mouthed expression, reacting negatively to the joke.
2. Middle wolf: "Non-smokers" with a neutral, unimpressed look, indifferent to the quip.
3. Right wolf: "The person that wrote this" with a smug, amused expression, proud of the dark joke.

Origin notes

The top portion is a screenshot of a satirical answer to a cigarette expiration question, likely originating from a Q&A platform like Yahoo Answers (popular in 2006) that was indexed by Google. The bottom portion uses the iconic "Three Wolves" meme template, which comes from a viral 2008 Amazon product review for a wolf-themed hoodie; this template has been widely remixed on meme platforms like Reddit, Twitter/X, and Instagram for reaction-style jokes. This specific meme is a user-created remix combining the search screenshot with the wolf template, typical of content shared in humor-focused online communities like Reddit's r/memes.

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