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No one knows for sure, but one explanation traces this superstition back to World War I. During that war, soldiers spent a lot of time in trenches, watching for an enemy attack and for enemy snipers. Soldiers believed that by lighting a match at night and using it to light three cigarettes, they were giving enemy snipers time en
