To anybody who is at all, even remotely, likely to flick your little saliva soaked and tar stained cancer stick filter out your car window or on the ground or any damn place your little smoked screened head feels like it; don’t. Just don’t. I’m disgusted by the amount of these little toxic nibs that have been flung randomly at the ground. I suggest those in possession of one of these effing stems of disease eat them instead… kill two birds slowly with one vile little poison pill. —Smoke Scream
This article appears in Apr 11-17, 2013.
Kinda harshly written, but a valid bitch.
So write the Federal government and tell them you want smoking made illegal. See how far that gets you, OP. considering how addicted they are to the revenues.
Littering is littering. I take very little issue with people smoking or doing whatever to their own bodies.
So, I just called the Federal Government. Didn’t know who to talk to, so I just asked for the Federal Government. That person was very helpful. Turns out littering is illegal. Who woulda thought? Guess the OB is right, they shouldn’t be discarded on the ground.
I just find this double standard funny. No one will throw their Tim’s cup on the ground in front of a cop (or the Federal Government), but you can flick those dirty little butts everywhere. In the history of LTWWB has anyone ever heard of a person getting a ticket for littering when the litter in question was a butt?
But the worst offenders are the drivers who flick them out the window at unsuspecting cyclists. God damn them all!!!
PS- I’m still Wogger’s TTFN, and if your the last to hear, I’m now Paulio too. What a world!
Okay OB, once YOU pay the taxes on those little saliva soaked and tar stained cancer sticks, everyone will quit.
You see, the governments LIKE smokers. Smokers geberate lareg amopunts of income and die earlier (than thos who don’t), reducing health care costs. That’s why they don’t criminalize smoking or enforce litter laws.
well it’s illegal everywhere else.
This is the effect of that cause.
Not sure what you want me to say, op. Yes. It’s illegal to throw butts wherever. But when you ban smoking everyfuckingwhere else, the number of ASHTRAYS is limited. Which means that you can dash around the city setting garbage can fires or you can put it on the ground and stamp it out.
Please op, come up with a solution that is fair (not just to you but to everybody.)
btw op. Never visit any foreign country. You’d die of shock.
Who else here wants to see op use a primitive squat toilet in rural China? They’re epic.
Anyone notice (nah op hasn’t but who else..?) that there is actually a distressing lack of garbage facilities EVERYWHERE? For every type of garbage?
They want our littering fines and are making it impossible not to litter.
Fuck those guys. I carry that shit to the ends of the earth just to stick it in their face.
Other cities employ street cleaners which is an excellent make work project. We just make it hard to manage litter, then fine the citizens.
I suppose op hasn’t thought of that either.
I find the butts unsightly. I have to sweep them up outside of the entrance doors to my lovely part-time job. There are garbage cans everywhere to dispose of them (hopefully they’re not smoldering)….funny how people can litter all around a garbage can and never actually USE the garbage can. Sorry folks, it’s disgusting, lazy and disrespectful to the environment, and to others. And the idiots that flick them at bikers? Well that’s a whole nother breed of nasty! There needs to be stricter laws on littering. Police need to start taking people to task! Maybe instead of a fine they could be forced to eat the butt they just tossed! Saw that on a movie once! I doubt the guy ever did it again! “Hoover it” LOL
What ever happened to being responsible for your own actions? You choose to smoke, deal with it. Field strip the butts…. oh but that takes effort doesn’t it. You have garbage to throw away….. hold on to it until there is a garbage can. The big nasty government didn’t force you to create waste, you choose to… so again, deal with it.
Is that fair Ella?
And Meaty, smoking causes alot of long term illnesses that put alot of financial strain on our health system. Smokers don’t just drop dead quietly at 40.
My buddy got pulled over for flicking a butt in Edmonton. People who have moved here from BC comment on how much trash there is all over the place. There should be more garbage cans and butt stops or whatever they’re called, but I don’t litter and I make out OK. If I have to hold on to something for a few minutes so be it. But the dilemma when you’re driving is you can’t really put it out. I’m glad I don’t smoke.
i agree kirk. But then everyone would be bitching about garbage can fires.
Cuz you KNOW that shit probably causes fire.
I don’t litter either TJ. The result is that there is sundry plastic wrap in my backpack and my car looks like a recycling plant.
Which also isn’t fair. If littering is such a huge issue, why the lack of receptacles?
I had a prof who told us about the time someone flicked a butt out their window and landed in her car. It caught the seat on fire. Kinda like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9RbwDvpqD4
So don’t flick yo’ butts.
KIRK/aka Paul: Guess what? It looks as though no one gives a shit about your feeble attempt at creating drama. Paul you’re a bore, face it.
I forgot to add I like butt…
Check your stats Kirk…
I checked my stats Meaty.
“And Meaty, smoking causes alot of long term illnesses that put alot of financial strain on our health system. Smokers don’t just drop dead quietly at 40.”
My statement is correct. Have you heard of lung cancer by any chance? Once you have it, your dead in less than an hour… right?
Agreed, TTFN…not gonna happen.
KEEP YOUR BUTT OUT OF MY FACE???? i keeep tellin tha ole woman tha t butt dos she lisen? no. yeck.
There’s alwys something like this…
http://www.nobutts.com.au/img/7163
…but that would take an effort, wouldn’t it.
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to(Nazi) Germany. – George Santayana
I don’t have that problem with my car, crayons because every time I get home or anywhere that has a garbage can I take whatever trash has built up and throw it out. My car is NEVER full of trash. If your car looks like a recycling plant you should try taking 5 seconds out of your daily routine and when you get out of your car, take your trash in with you. Every day.
being one of those damn smokers makes me mad too. yes, why doesn’t the cities and towns and whoever put up more butt bins on wood lampposts? there is an abundant supply of people out there, paying high fucking taxes, that should have these things in place.
maybe the public officials should rethink their no smoking policies and make some work for the others that roam the streets, bumming for a smoke. put the bins up, let the bums clean them out, doesn’t cost anyone anything to do that. just the initial costs of making bins, and putting them up.
i see people all the time, walking the streets, at all hours, picking up butts, and i’m damn sure they are not civic minded people. with the price jumping up every few months, there are more all the time. and on the subject of price hiking, there will be more smuggling of smoking and the selling of said smokes.
a friend told me one day, that up in quebec, the reserve that makes and sells them, they call the cops after people buy so many cases. there is sposed to be a deal there of some sort. so who loses? the idiot that travels to them, buys them, over 10 cases, and loses them and gets fined. the natives have their cash, the cops have their perp. so most are happy with the deal, except the poor sap that lost his shirt and car and smokes.
pisses me off that someone would actually do that, but hey, business is business, right? back to comment, governments all, should take some responsibility for the mess, people some also. and there you have it.
More public ash-tray would be nice. They used to be everywhere when I was a kid, especially at the entrances of stores.
Imo, the smoking bans went way too far, smoking rooms and private smokers clubs worked great.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! – William James
Those weren’t the “stats” Meaty was looking for Kirk.
I still say make the damn butts out of chewing gum. I’ve got to get to work on this. I could become rich off this idea. Look for Reg on Dragon’s Den.
I’m gonna invent little portable ashtrays for people to carry around with them. Like a little container with a top you can close. That way a person can carry around their stinky butts all day till they can home to safely flush them down the toilet.
Helloooo Dragons Den, here I come!
EDIT – wtf – someone stole my idea already!!!
If either of you make it onto Dragon’s Den – SkunkLady is in dire need of a good old-fashioned box-punchin’.
Don’t let me down.
OMG PK…..I love it! HAHAHAHA
They can be stylish too…
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/POCKET-COFFIN-ASHTR…
Ive bitched about this before.. it annoys me to see all the buts on the ground.. I think people should just but it out and then throw it out and if there isn’t a garbage just put it in your pack (like a whole bunch of other people already do) and throw them away when you get home.. And no it wont make you smell any more then smoking one made you smell already..