Smokers - do you litter your butts?...

Surely, the progressive smokers at DU don't. But if you know someone who does, please get them to stop.



from: http://www.cigarettelitter.org a non-profit group "dedicated to running educational campaigns aimed at significantly reducing the amount of cigarette litter."

Please, smokers, if you're going to smoke, properly dispose of your butts.

Sid

Thanks for the reminder.

:toast:

And thanks for thinking of the environment.

Sid

So don't be too generous with that praise.

it wasn't easy, but it's the best thing that I've ever done for myself. I feel so much better! :) You can do it, too, proud2Blib! But, I was much like you. Not a litterer! I'd always go out of my way to find a proper place to trash my butt! :)

The cigs are gonna kill the smoker anyway.

Maybe they save smokers from burning their fingers. Safety feature?

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...and I always scrape the butts with my foot to rend them apart into nothing. Sometimes, if I'm in in the woods or something, I stuff them into my pocket (after extinguishing them!) and carry them out with me.

I *should* just quit entirely -- but 'should' is one of those funny words...

:hi:

...of nicotine withdrawal.

I WANT MY MOMMY!!! :cry:

Edit to add:

x( :mad: :argh: :hurts: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:

the patch prevented me from having homicidal thoughts. :crazy: Just a suggestion for your consideration from one who has been there. It's the ONLY way I could do it.

...and after 11 hours, I was seriously considering ramming my head through a plaster and lathe wall.

At the time I thought it might help, for some reason...:shrug:

Next time, I use the patch. And some gum. And a set of shackles, if need be...

which kept me sane! Without a little bit of nicotine for that first two months, I think I would have murdered my husband! :)

to a crime?

There really is no proper disposal...well, maybe we can find a way to hurl all our garbage into the sun. That'll do it.

Of course, that means that I come home with these stinky butts in my jacket pocket, but it's much better than throwing them on the ground.

My beef is this: if society sends us all to the curb to smoke (something that I agree with, by the way) then perhaps somebody should think about providing more ashtrays out there...

:applause:

Sid

I always pocket my butts when I'm out & about. :hi:

:applause: :hi:

Sid

Redstone

I'd be more careful about the butts if cig/ash receptacles weren't routinely full of litter. Any smoker knows they wouldn't do that, it's too great a risk of fire.

Please, non-smokers, put your litter in trash receptacles and leave the ash-cans for smokers to please the OP.

:smoke:

and as we were leaving, we could smell smoke. It was a large crowd and people started panicking to get out of the building. But as we exited, the smell of smoke was even stronger outside.

Turns out someone had thrown some paper in an ashtray that sat by the door and it was in flames. The fire dept arrived and put out the fire. The firemen said they go out on calls just like that a lot more often than we realize.

Use a trash can, not the ashtray!

I try to use an ashtray and it's filled with paper. Not fire friendly.:smoke:

or are they still those old pans filled with sand? Butt cans like the ones above all but eliminate the risk of fire.

Sid

Sid

people were putting trash in the cig holes in these recepticals, just like the ones pictured above..they were clogging the necks of the cans..one was by our entrance door last winter...unbeknownst to the cigarette smoker who put their cig into the recepticle ..there was paper clogging the neck of the can..and it started a fire at the door of our building!

the fire alarms went off in our building..we all had to evac down the stairs..only to get to the front door and the flames were blocking the front door!

if you see these recepticales..please please do not throw or stuff your garbage into the necks of these recepticles!

it is dangerous!

fly

If it's something like a tissue, it may get stuck in the top tube. Next thing you know, you have a new piece of conceptual art.

They've melted about three here at work in the past year because people don't put their damn cigarettes out BEFORE putting them into the receptacle. Smells disgusting, too.

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to #10 is not as accusatory as it sounds.:smoke:

:)

It's a habit I picked up from a good friend of mine several years ago. Cigarette butts are an eyesore, if nothing else.

I think the butts may break down more quickly. When I'm at my best friends house, we smoke outdoors (the wife demands it) and we use a water filled jar for the butts. The water seems to break them down pretty fast. Just my experience.

field strip my cigarettes putting the butt back in the cigarette pack.

Making sure all the fire is out, pull the remaining tobacco out, and then pocket the butt. I am EXTREMELY careful about smoking in fields or woods....we watched what a smoker with a careless cigarette on the other side of the woods did to our woods area when I was a kid...running around and trying to save your home when grass is flaming up and moving toward your house is NOT something you want to do at the Age of 11 and before cell phones. My brother and I and every neighbor for miles (and we were SPREAD out then, but back in the day a large column of smoke was something you had to jump in your car or on your tractor and check out because it just might be your neighbor down the road house on fire) were smacking blazing grass and tree based with wet sacks for HOURS to try and save the field and the trees and the crops. Could not get fire trucks back in there cause it was wet and they sank. 1971.

No, I do not litter my butts...anywhere...never have.

I really hate the radical non-smoking crowd and their crusade but I'm starting to hate people who throw the butts out their car windows even more. I'm sure it's a percentage of the smokers who do that - I have no way of guessing that percentage but wouldn't be surprised if it were over 50%. It's just too damn easy to do. Throw them away and not have to clean out the ashtray.

The same can be said about some dog owners who let their dogs crap on other people's lawns and are just too lazy to clean it up. On voting day, I stepped in a pile on the lawn outside the polling place, and it just reinforced that feeling.

With things like this, it's human nature to just walk away from it. Lots of people throw gum wrappers on the ground rather than put the effort forth to find a trash can or empty it from their pocket later.

-mwalker

Because in their over-zealousness, automakers are now making cars without ashtrays. Seriously. I had to do that for awhile (until I quit because I was pregnant) when I first got my new car because there was not an ashtray inside and you can't field strip 'em in the car.

I'm sure you can buy a little pouch for them for the car, but I quit before I got around to doing that.

Why have the automakers stopped putting them in cars? Any ideas?

driving it. didnt even think to look. ihave a lighter didnt or an ashtray. really pissed me off. i put an ashtray in the car of course which is a pretty big pain in the ass, it sittin on the floor.

and congrats and excitement with baby. i looooooove babies.

and they have a hole you can just drop the butt in & they will self-extinguish. Invented by Bob & Ken.

(Use a V-8 juice can if soda cans have deposits.)
Easy to discard. No sparks. No burning butts in the ashtray.
Most cars have beverage holders.

:shrug:

They were both very proud of the fact that their ashtrays had never been used, even though their cars were not of recent vintage.
I was aghast they just threw their butts out the window.

I wonder if they think it added value to the car which is ridiculous.
Yes, I gave mini-lectures....

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Here in California, where the tiniest spark can start a monsterous wildfire, one small cigarette butt tossed out the window can mean millions of dollars of property damaged and many lives lost. When I see people tossing butts out the window here in CA, I ferverently wish I were a big, stong macho guy instead of a medium sized woman; I'd pull them off the road and bloody their noses for tossing butts out the window.

Keep those windows up.
:)

but as someone noted above there are very few public ashtrays anymore. Buildings used to have ashtrays on top of their garbage pails in NYC but since 9/11 they have removed them b/c they got breaks on their insurance to do so. Apparently to prevent terrorists from putting bombs in them. <rolls eyes> So I usually toss them in the curb so they street cleaners will get them.

are good about not throwing butts on the ground. Field strip and place butt in the cellophane that the pack came in and then dispose of properly.

Regards,

Mugu

been out for a while and the habit never went away.

Most people learned very quickly that littering a military base was a very bad idea. Plus, some foreign countries take a very dim view of littering and the last thing that enlisted personnel want to do is run afoul of the local authorities.


Regards,

Mugu

It makes very little difference where I am. If I've got some wait time on my hands, rather than sit and kvetch and complain about "filthy smokers littering" I pick up butts myself. It's a trivial part of "being the change we wish to see in the world." I did it in the Army; I can do it as a civilian. Expecting someone else to do it is just another way to target blame without doing anything to make it better. I figure that's stupid. So, I pick up butts.

:shrug:

It keeps the street cleaners in a job, and is my personal contribution to sustaining our economy.

that I never have to throw a butt on the ground. They don't degrade and THEY LOOK LIKE HELL! On the beach, I even pick up other people's. Now, aren't I special.:bounce:

like beaches and such. It's the friggin butts! :mad:

to dispose of my butt, it goes into my pocket or the pack for future disposal. What irks me so many times is to see piles of butts within reach of some sort of receptacle! While I have not, do not, and will not, defend smoking, I DO defend my right to do so. That said, I at least try to be a polite dirty smoker and have been successful in converting others to being more conscious of where they put their dead smokes.

;-)

I never threw them down....but when people smoked on my property...I wasn't so lucky, everyone thought I was nuts for raising so much hell over butts being thrown on the ground...so I understand exactly what this is all about...I hate seeing butts laying around...
wb

and dispose of them in the trash.

Normally, if there's no astray or other way to dispose, I'll put the butt out and slip it in the cellophane.

There are some exceptions, though. For example, at our football stadium, there are designated smoking areas with no cans. Everyone leaves them on the cement, and someone is paid to sweep them up.