My butts

[GoddessOfGuinness]

When I smoked, I never flicked them from my car window, and I always emptied the ashtray in the trash...not the median strip at the first red light I came to.

I quit smoking a long time ago; and apparently the habit is on the decline. But butts still abound along the roadside, awaiting the next rain to wash them into the river. I respectfully request that smokers consider their disposal of their own butts with care and concern for the environment.

Thank you. :loveya:

This topic is dedicated to flvegan. :toast:

[SeattleGirl]

1. Here in Washington, you can get fined over $1000 for throwing

a butt out the window of your car. I didn't do that before the law was enacted, but if I had, that would sure stop me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. I wish they'd do that around here...

And double the fine during droughts.

[Clarkie1]

2. The people on the unit upstairs from me drop their butts down the stairs

and onto my patio. I talked to them about it, but it still happens occasionally.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. EWWWwwwww!

How incredibly RUDE!

[Clarkie1]

5. It pisses me off. I'm thinking maybe if I collect them (wearing gloves)

for awhile then dump them all by their doorstep maybe they will get the message.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Excellent idea, Clarkie1

I'd do it!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Sounds like a good idea to me!

:evilgrin:

[UncleSepp]

10. You could spell stuff with the butts!

Like "Keep your stinky butts on your own patio." I smoke, and I will stick the dang butt in my pocket until I find a garbage can to put it in. It might smell up my own pocket, but they dont' belong in the street.

[KitchenWitch]

6. That drives me nuts

As well as the folks that do smoke just dropping their butt on the sidewalk without stamping it out when going into a public place that does not allow smoking.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Years ago, I attended a summer program in which the music director

made everybody pick up their butts from the grounds of the rehearsal hall. After that, I always put extinguished butts in the celophane wrapper surrounding the pack of cigarrettes, or something similar.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. I'd love to — but where?

I've never had a problem with "smoke outside" laws — but if this is the mandate, it'd be prudent for ash trays or butt cans to be placed at common smoking locations. :shrug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

12. I roll-my-own....

I put them out before dropping them. They usually disappear quickly. We do get 10 months of rain per year. I don't drive. During the summer I avoid combustible pockets of the landscape.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. That's part of the reason I used to smoke unfiltered cigarettes.

Biodegradable, you know.

[Mutley]

14. I always kept an ashtray in my car

and hated seeing other smokers wantonly throwing their burning butts out the window. :mad:

I suppose I'll hate it even more now that I quit.