# Cigarette assholes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808 "2000-10-13T17:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/161 "2000-11-06T06:49:39Z")
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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/162 "2000-11-06T22:59:45Z")
No, **Chronolicht** , I’m not going to let you get away with that one. Take responsibility for your actions. Pick up your damn (cigarette) butts. And, if you really care about the decline of your ass, work out, too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/163 "2000-11-07T00:27:36Z")
I actually pocketed all my spent sticks today. One small step for Montfort… It’s still bread and circus to me though. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/164 "2000-11-07T01:37:11Z")
One small step for man, one giant step for mankind. (Or something like that.) We only need 47 more views to bump this to 3000 views. Get curious, people! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/165 "2000-11-09T17:30:56Z")
This thread is a bit ridiculous at times, but i agree with the OP, at least to a certain extent. Cigarette buts all over the place are not a pretty sight, and if there’s an alternate way to dispose of them, then please do! Perhaps carrying butts around in your pocket all day isn’t that pleasant a deal, so it’s understandable that most people won’t. (Though I still call it littering…) What gets me, though, is people (they do this on my campus all the time) who huddle around an entrance-way to a building to smoke, then throw their butts down when there are “Butt-Stop” ashtrays right next to them. For this, there is NO excuse. The ashtrays were put there for a reason, USE THEM! It can’t be argued that it’s “going out of their way” to dispose of the butts (especially since I’ve seen people go 10 flights of stairs out of their way just to smoke the damn cigarette). As a non-smoker, I don’t like having to walk across an entrance-way cluttered with butts. Don’t get me started on the smoke cloud I have to go through…I just wish there was some way to get people to smoke away from doorways in bad weather so that non-smokers don’t have to walk through the smoke. Kinda contradicts the idea of “smoke-free” buildings… ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808/166 "2000-11-09T17:40:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mnemosyne \* > **What gets me, though, is people (they do this on my campus all the time) who huddle around an entrance-way to a building to smoke, then throw their butts down when there are “Butt-Stop” ashtrays right next to them. For this, there is NO excuse. The ashtrays were put there for a reason, USE THEM!** Amen. I work in the “Golden Triange” area of Washington, DC, which is basically a corporate neighbourhood promoting itself as a clean, safe, and convenient place for businesses to locate themselves. They have maps to show that you are in the Golden Triangle area, people in black and gold jackets standing around to help people with directions in the area. And, most importantly, every trashcan has an ashtray right next to it. Of course, at any given time, there are more butts on the ground in the vicinity of the ashtray than in the ashtray. Sheesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarette-assholes/36808.md?page=8)