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Donkey_Kong:
Well I hate it when people throw trash out there window too.

My wife says the Earth is an ashtray, she's right. Have you ever looked down at a busy left handed turn lane, on a red. Do it sometime. But they aren't limited  to just there either.

This isn't a bag on smokers either. I used to puff on 'em. I ain't had one in like 6 or 7 years and I know I used to chuck my buts anywhere and  everywhere. I promise if  ver take up puffing again (but i won't) I will not throw my buts randomly out the car window etc...The result is mighty disgusting, specially in high traffic areas.








leapinlew:

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Donkey_Kong on August 22, 2007, 06:28:38 pm ---I will not throw my buts randomly out the car window etc...The result is mighty disgusting, specially in high traffic areas.

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I have also seen piles of cigarettes on parkings. From people cleaning their car ashtrays out. What's the point of putting it in an ashtray if you throw out the whole ashtray anyway?

On the other hand, I heard that several Porsche Boxsters (the "cheap" convertible Porsche) went up in flames because people threw their cigarettes out the window and they got caught in the air intake in the back and from their into the engine (it's rear engined car) So throwing a cigarette out while driving might be dangerous in certain cars  :P

shmokes:
Yeah . . . smokers bother me the most when it comes to littering.  They are incredible.  I've actually talked to smokers who "won't" litter, but they don't consider throwing cigarette butts on the ground littering.  WTF?  What kind of twisted reasoning can possibly produce results like that.  But, yeah, I've said for years that cigarettes should have a tax on them that goes directly into street sweeping.  For every smoker who doesn't litter there are probably 100 who don't think twice about tossing their trash on the ground.

boykster:

--- Quote from: shmokes on August 23, 2007, 12:08:25 am ---Yeah . . . smokers bother me the most when it comes to littering.  They are incredible.  I've actually talked to smokers who "won't" litter, but they don't consider throwing cigarette butts on the ground littering.  WTF?  What kind of twisted reasoning can possibly produce results like that.  But, yeah, I've said for years that cigarettes should have a tax on them that goes directly into street sweeping.  For every smoker who doesn't litter there are probably 100 who don't think twice about tossing their trash on the ground.

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the other option is to have a system for cig butts like for recycleable bottles.  Give each buck a nickel premium if it's returned to a collection center.  Even if the original smoker doesn't resist the urge to flip the butt, it would sure give kids and homeless people something to do  ;)

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