Ok, smokers have a bit of a hard time, having to smoke outdoors whatever the weather for the most, but WTF do they have to flick cigarette ends all over the place? Smoking maybe classed as antisocial by some people but cigarette ends flicked everywhere (including where smoking is prohibited) is far worse in my view, and blaming the lack of receptables for cigarette ends is a lame excuse. You hike ’em in, so hike ’em out! Don’t be such a butt head!!
—Tab Fed Up!
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.
I think the city should start putting up more of those “butt out” butt stopers around town to resolve this problem!
It’s so much fucking easier to just go to the Dollar Store and get a portable ashtray.
I wish they would, TTFN. Agreeing with the OP, and I’ve stamped out smouldering butts more than once while hiking in the woods.
I guess people never hear the adage “Be careful for what you wish for because it just might happen” Well exiling smokers to the outdoors, this is the result you get. So suck it up.
Bro Tim: Uhhh what? That has nothing to do with it. There have been tons of fucking butts everywhere for decades. They get flicked everywhere even WITH ashtrays set up.
I’m a smoker, and butt flickers piss me off too, especially out in the woods or at the beach. It’d be nice to go out in nature and not have to look at people’s discarded crap, be it cigarette butts or plastic junk. How hard is it to put shit in your pockets or in a container and wait till you see a garbage can? Mother Nature just can’t get no respect!
I smoke on occasion and leave my asses where they belong: in the asstray. People with low self esteems just think they’re badass by littering.
I don’t think self esteem has anything to do with a butt flicking smoker’s decision to flick it or stow it… where are you coming from, Dino? Some people are environmentally conscious, some are oblivious or apathetic (Bro). Littering is not restricted to the smoking population. Wanna talk coffee now? How ’bout fast food?
Ya, but burger wrappers or coffee cups have not yet, to my knowledge, started any massive forest fires or any of these;
“Cigarette caused fire at Portsmouth complex”
By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Mar 25, 2009 14:05:12 EDT
“Fourteen sailors and family members in Maine saw their homes go up in flames last Saturday after a cigarette butt started a fire at an apartment complex near Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a fire department official said.
The massive fire at the 12-unit apartment in Kittery broke out about 8 p.m. Saturday after someone on a second-floor balcony flicked a lit cigarette into a pile of pine needles, said Chief David O’Brien of the Kittery Fire Department.
The fire spread to a nearby gas grill on the porch and then into the wood-frame building, O’Brien said. At least four of the apartment units were destroyed.
About 55 firefighters took several hours to put out the fire in the building, which is owned by a private company under a partnership with the Navy. The building is in a complex that houses many of the enlisted sailors assigned to the Portsmouth shipyard.
The 14 people whose homes were destroyed have moved into nearby furnished apartments owned by the same company, O’Brien said.”
Littering is unsightly and lazy-assed. Littering with still burning, combustable things is beyond stupid.
Gee, lets combine two rants 🙂 Assholes who flick butts out of moving vehicles. I have had more than a few bounce off me and my bike…thankfuly none has gone into my helmet or near my gas line. Only ever managed to chase one down and catch him…locked his van, pissed himself (or spilled coffee as he was drinking, talking on his cell, AND smoking) and called 911.
I recycle my smoke butts. I crush
them up real good, so that the cherry’s
out, then it keep it in my pocket,
or in a baggy. After every four or five
smokes, I roll the tobacco from my butts
into a smoke, and throw my old butts in
the garbage. It’s not disgusting if they’re
your own butts. No germs. Plus, it’s
saving money, a bit.
Christ, does everyone here smoke?
Only the good stuff, dear.
I had a prof last term who told us a story about how one summer this guy in a truck flicked his butt out the window and it ended up in her car and caught the seat on fire and she had to try and extinguish it while trying to pull over in heavy traffic. So yah, flicking your butts isn’t only unsightly, it can be dangerous.
haha yea
Well i don’t think self esteem has to do with anything. What matters is Okay I have 10 mins until I start work where to put this? on the ground….. OK
Like I said they should fund for the “Butt Out” butt stoppers at bus stops it is genius!
uh huh, brick’s just a soccer dad. No rebel in him at all.
People just don’t see it as littering since the butts are so small. But they add up! The same people who toss their butts on the ground are sometimes the same people that would tsk tsk someone for throwing a coffee cup wherever.
What about gum tossers?
Pretty Kitty, about your “flicking it out
the window” comment: The trick is to
roll the window all the way down, and
reach your arm as far back as you can,
towards the back of the car, then
just release the butt. It won’t fly back
into the window.
I second hello’s method of recycling.
Soccer dad? Ya right…crack addict.