Can one of you smokers please explain to me why you have to flick your butts on the ground? I know, I know, there are no ashtrays. But you know what? If I am walking along enjoying a snack or treat of some sort, and there is no garbage can right there when I finish said snack, I put the wrapper IN MY POCKET until I walk past an appropriate receptacle. WHY can’t you do that? Please tell me. I really want to know.
This article appears in Oct 2-8, 2008.
I can’t wait to see all the smokers walking around with pockets on fire.While I am also annoyed by cigarette butts, that is the most ridiculous suggestion I have ever heard.
Not so ridiculous, BG. I have frequently seen people put out half finished cigarettes and put them away to finish later, so why not finished ones?
God, those people who put their stubbed out cigs back in the pack REEK beyond belief.And this is coming from a smoker. Well, a forth-day-on-the-patcher…wish me luck!
like Jammie said …its stinks…if all us smokers did that, the next thing to complain about would be you non smokers saying how you can’t stand the smell and we shouldn’t be allowed on the bus or anywhere public with are stankin cigarette butts in our back pockets…although if I could find an ashtray everytime I need one I’d use it
I hesitate to say this, because I don’t want to bash smokers, but y’all stink anyway. Sorry to be unkind, but it’s true. What about those little portable ashtrays, like little clamshells that snap shut? That might help. Of course, the best solution would be for HRM to put the damn ashtrays back. Maybe if smokers start putting their butts in the garbage cans around town, the city will get tired of putting out gargbage can fires and provide a few ashtrays. Good luck Jammie.
Soem stink far worse than others. Some are actually aware of their relationships to the space and people around them and make an attempt to puff in well ventilated areas, blow the smoke away into the wind so as to not have it absorbed completely into their hair and clothes, things like that. It may not make a huge difference for all but I think it can make a big difference for some. I’ve had people seem very very surprised when they found out I was a smoker.Others sit at their desks in their tiny rooms and puff cig after cig in their permanent cloud of blue smoke, and the odor just pours out of their skin…and they don’t care.
Both sides are good arguments. I am a smoker, but the thing that pisses me off is when there is a butt can available and these fuckers still throw their butts on the ground(directly under it). cigarette butts in your pocket or put back in your pack stink worse than anything.
Miranda does have a point, they do make devices to transport unfinished cigarettes. So given you have one of those that’s cool. Otherwise, I still think its ridiculous to have a pockey full of butts.
Holding onto your butts till you find a proper disposal place for them is no more ridiculous than holding onto a bar wrapper, or EVEN the empty cigarette package. Its still litter. Dog crap smells bad too, but I can’t leave my dog’s crap on the ground. My waste, my responsibility.
Iwould love to explain why idiots are idiots, but unfortunately, I can’t. All I can say is I am a smoker, and I just rip the cherry off the end of my smoke, and throw it in a garbage can. Even better, I soak it in rainwater, or a little coffee from my travel mug, and throw it in a trash can.It is beyond me why some of us puffers can’t figure out how to do this, or how to walk the extra 2 feet to a freaking ashtray…
The smell of cigarettes and gum makes me want to puke. It doesn’t cover up the smell, its just combines with it to make this minty/fruity cigarette bad breath smell which is worse than just smoke smell alone.