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George W Bush · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: Cigarette Butts

i see this all the time, and it irritates me.

People throwing cigarette butts out the window because they dont want to dirty their pretty little ASHTRAYS.

Its LITTERING just like if I threw a bottle out my window. Dont think that just because its small its meaningless litter. That stuff piles up.

If you smoke, put the butts where they belong. Either in your lungs, or your ashtray. but, not on the road.

i knew someone who was fined for littering when he decided to make earth his ashtray by flicking his butt out his window. A cop pulled him over, and fined him. I thought, "GOOD..."

Luigidel · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 150

Who really caares. It's not like they have any significant effect on anything anyway. And anyplace they might add up is already polluted and urbaized, so its not like any wild life is being affected anyway. Despite the fact its gross, it poses no significant threat to anything. Stop losing so much sleep all you EPA and ELF terrorists. Focus on something that might actually matter or have some sort of significance.

ieatfood · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 6505

yea, what he said.

Pebble · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 1143

Luigidel wrote: Who really caares. It's not like they have any significant effect on anything anyway. And anyplace they might add up is already polluted and urbaized, so its not like any wild life is being affected anyway. Despite the fact its gross, it poses no significant threat to anything. Stop losing so much sleep all you EPA and ELF terrorists. Focus on something that might actually matter or have some sort of significance.

You've never been in a forest fire caused by one I take it? Not a pleasant expierience to be honest.

Tracker · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:33 am Post subject:

A forest-fire CAUSED by a cigarette-butt? Now that would be IMPOSSIBLE to prove.

I used to flick cigarette-butts out the window. But grass-fires along the roadside are COMMON. So, I stopped doing that -- so goes the 'public excuse' -- because the 'real' reason is I smoke pot when I drive drunk and don't want to get pulled over for throwing something out the window. :lol: ;)

They are indeed biodegradable. The contents is plant. The wrapper is paper made from, well, plants. The filter is cotton, which is made from, well, plants.

But they are unsightly. Job-security for parking-lot clean-up crews ... but not appreciated in peoples' landscaping ... nor potted-plants ... nor entryways. As for MY OWN PROPERTY, I encourage it -- on bare-dirt spots ONLY -- as it is easy to pick them up from time-to-time

No matter what, some people will concoct ANY EXCUSE to HATE 'not their kind of people,' in so-called 'positive-goodness.' If you do not like smoking, I encourage you NOT TO DO IT. SIMPLE.

revolution_reversal · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:56 am Post subject:

Luigidel wrote: Who really caares. It's not like they have any significant effect on anything anyway. And anyplace they might add up is already polluted and urbaized, so its not like any wild life is being affected anyway. Despite the fact its gross, it poses no significant threat to anything. Stop losing so much sleep all you EPA and ELF terrorists. Focus on something that might actually matter or have some sort of significance.

The environment matters more than human life, without a safe healthy environment, all people will die. Without humans the natural world won't die.

Mr X · Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 402 Location: BC

revolution_reversal wrote: Luigidel wrote: Who really caares. It's not like they have any significant effect on anything anyway. And anyplace they might add up is already polluted and urbaized, so its not like any wild life is being affected anyway. Despite the fact its gross, it poses no significant threat to anything. Stop losing so much sleep all you EPA and ELF terrorists. Focus on something that might actually matter or have some sort of significance.

The environment matters more than human life, without a safe healthy environment, all people will die. Without humans the natural world won't die.
Throwing your cigarette butt on the ground is not going to have any really impact in the enviroment. It's still littering and ugly though.

Wolverine · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 11047 Location: Podunk, Colorado

Those who do litter should be charged, and fined.

forthegreatergood · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 366

Do a search on google (in the images section) and type cigarrette butts, and see what you get

George W Bush · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

forthegreatergood wrote: Do a search on google (in the images section) and type cigarrette butts, and see what you get

blah.

i still wonder, though, why not put them in your ashtray?

grim · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1366 Location: Ottawa

forthegreatergood wrote: Do a search on google (in the images section) and type cigarrette butts, and see what you get

Yeah I see what you mean. Thanks.

Kt · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 3806

Littering is a disrespect of the earth.

Enoch · Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 9374

If there are ashtrays, I use them. Or, if possible, I bring a soda can or something with me to put butts in.

My university istituted a new smoking policy, making smokers move 30 feet from doorways to smoke. Okay, no problem. But, they then got rid of about half of the ashtrays on campus. Well, guess what? Smokers, myself included, started littering butts all over campus in record amounts. They brought the ashtrays back.

Want us to move? Fine, but make sure you still give us ashtrays.

OneZero · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 3413

revolution_reversal wrote: Luigidel wrote: Who really caares. It's not like they have any significant effect on anything anyway. And anyplace they might add up is already polluted and urbaized, so its not like any wild life is being affected anyway. Despite the fact its gross, it poses no significant threat to anything. Stop losing so much sleep all you EPA and ELF terrorists. Focus on something that might actually matter or have some sort of significance.

The environment matters more than human life, without a safe healthy environment, all people will die. Without humans the natural world won't die.

Haha I love it when people say this! :lol:

Yeah littering is gross, but cigarettes aren't gonna impact the environment a whole heck of a lot.

Leon Czolgosz · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 190

Helena` wrote: Littering is a disrespect of the earth.

well, the earth needs to stop me then :roll:

Cig butts gives minimum wage janitors a job. without me littering, they would hire less janitors. Therefore, I am merley stimulating the economy by providing the need for jobs.

Besides, in 80 years, when I'm dead, gone and forgotten by all but maybe my then elderly grandkids, who cares what condition the earth is in

perdidochas · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 15424 Location: Florida

George W Bush wrote: i see this all the time, and it irritates me.

People throwing cigarette butts out the window because they dont want to dirty their pretty little ASHTRAYS.

Its LITTERING just like if I threw a bottle out my window. Dont think that just because its small its meaningless litter. That stuff piles up.

If you smoke, put the butts where they belong. Either in your lungs, or your ashtray. but, not on the road.

i knew someone who was fined for littering when he decided to make earth his ashtray by flicking his butt out his window. A cop pulled him over, and fined him. I thought, "GOOD..."

I agree 100%, especially in times of drought.

For something truly disgusting, look out the window at a stoplight on an interstate exit. You will more than likely see 100s of cig butts, where pig smokers empty their ashtrays.

Leon Czolgosz · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 190

and to think, while the cop was busy saving mother earth from cigerrette criminals, a drug deal went down unchallenged. Good job Capt. Planet.

perdidochas · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 15424 Location: Florida

Leon Czolgosz wrote: and to think, while the cop was busy saving mother earth from cigerrette criminals, a drug deal went down unchallenged. Good job Capt. Planet.

Not a realistic scenario.

Leon Czolgosz · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 190

what, a scenario that while Deputy Fife was busy giving a ticket for a cig butt out the window, a real crime could have been happening that he could have prevented?

What's so unreal about that

Stygma · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1346 Location: Boulder, Colorado

Leon Czolgosz wrote: and to think, while the cop was busy saving mother earth from cigerrette criminals, a drug deal went down unchallenged. Good job Capt. Planet.
1.) That's under the assumption that a police officer who's basically walking a beat and looking out for trouble would actually be at a drug deal and ready to bust some heads. An unrealistic example.
2.) The world would be a better place if most drug deals went down unchallenged.