Dear Smokers of HRM

I enjoy the fresh scent of cig butts in the morning, while getting off the bus on SGR to my work. It makes me want to vomit shit… let alone having high heeled footware from the butts accumulating underneath my shoes. What a view! For God’s Sake! Give the smokers back their limited privledges. Less litter on the streets and walking into less smoke.

i think the city should hand out a few of those 445$ littering fines to the butt throwing smokers. the little silver butt containers that are on a few buildings only get ambushed and destroyed by bums and little kids looking to score a few drags off a 4 day old festering cigarette, every so often they get lucky and get a decent roach out of it. the city can try putting more of those up but they have to make them out of the titanium that NASA uses or the packs of uncontrollable and unsupervised mid pubesecent half naked little brats will find a way do get into it. i have respect for the smokers who act like human beings…not smoke around kids, in bus stops, in their cars with other people, and out side of even their own homes. but the people who think they have a right to make me deal with them, i used to work at a corner store and they would bitch about the price like it was my fault… yes i’m sorry, it was me that caused the massive hike in fuel causing import costs to rise. yes…that was me, if you’ll excuse me, i’m scheduled to talk that trigger happy lunatic to the south of us to stop invading countries randomly, maybe their costs would lower with fuel, import, and cross boder labor and transport, rather then cross ocean labor and transport. they packs can be 5000 bucks each, stupid people will still smoke. there is no part of our lives which we do not have to account for stupid people. we have signs in buildings with big pictures and then plain english written below it. the top of prince street is only one way, and i walk past it every day to go to work, and the silver escape, blue cavalier, red escort, black tracker, red neon, orange civic, and silver …i think that one was a neon too….the way you went was the wrong way. how d you not notice that all the other cars are pointing against you and people are honking. and another thing i noticed, all these idiot drivers were on cell phones, except for the silver escape, he was just stopping so i could cross with my friend it pays to wear low cut tops huh. can we make a rule that smokers who throw their butts get fined, and people who drive and yack with out a hands free speaker get charged with impared driving ok? can we do that? thanks. i gotta go, bush just called, air force one is on it’s way, llluucccyyy….i got some ‘splainin ta do…again, i’m sorry about the whole fuel hike thing…

First off Ginger I REALLY fail to see how your asthma could be so bad even outside that you could be choked up by cigarette smoke. How do yo react to being downtown with all the car and bus emissions? Doesn’t that level of smoke/smog must absolutely kill you?? I am so sick of whining from your group.Coyote, you are right people should be responsible with their butts, I try to use any public ashtrays that are available and even though it’s not the best solution to pollution I usually toss my butts down a storm drain. I am also working on ending my habit, mostly due to cost factors and being a smoker is inconvenient these days, being forced outside of a club just to smoke is way too much of a hassle.Speaking of rude things left on the city streets, why not check out all the bottle caps left next to storm drains on Brunswick street. This is the remnants of the dochebags at the place/alehouse dumping their ice bins at the end of the night. Isn’t a crapload of non-biogradable caps worse than butts???

Smokers should have no rights. The butts are just a nasty side effect of the core problem. If my ‘un-breakable habit’ of CHOICE was to spit uncontrollably in public places, that would be squashed fairly quickly I would think. Or bite off my nails and toss them on people walking by. Same deal. You are doing something that affects the lives of those around you in a negative way. It’s unsanitary and it’s harmful to the health of others. Why is it that these people have the right to do this?? I must be confused and/or missing something here. And have you ever met someone with severe asthma, Mr. B?? Get a clue asswipe.