I used to have one of those big-size storm lighters with a garbage compartment (the thing was about the size of my fist) and I butted my cigs and put them there, until I could find an ash tray. I bought it for a hiking trip in a national park, but kept it ever since. Lost it last year while in Sweden and I can’t seem to find another of the damn things. (It was pretty neat, though - the compartment was air-proof, so it didn’t stink up my bag or anything)
I’ve also known people to carry an empty 10-pack in their coat pocket for whenever they’re out and can’t expect to find an ashtray. I try to do that, but I almost instinctively throw away my smoke packs when I’m done with them.
I did this once in a McDonald’s trash can when I was 16 and an employee there. Kinda scary at the time, but nobody ever found out it was me and the only thing damaged by the fire was the trash can itself.
I’m a smoker, I use the damn ashtray, when I am outside if one is not available, I put the spark out and put the butt in my pocket. On the farm there are way too many critters that can get sick from eating butts.
By the way, the latest results of multi-center observational studies conducted by the Jackmannii Institute of Applied Research show that when you are driving behind a smoker flicking ash out the window, the chances are better than 99.9999999999 in 100 that when the smoker is finished with his/her cigarette, the used butt will be tossed out also.
One of the girls at my work flicks her butts all over the place. I started collecting them and tucking them all under her door handles and windshield wiper.
She’s pretty good now, at least she stopped emptying her car ashtry into the parking lot and flicking the empty PACKS all over the place.
I happened to be having a smoke on the footpath at the same time as a fellow smoking co-worker recently, we finished our fag at the same time and she chucked her butt on the ground (I always put my butt out and then put it in the bin). I told her off and pointed out that she had to go past the bin to go back to work, she apologised but in a flippant way.
In an equally flippant way I joked that she was probably one of those smokers who chuck their butts out of the car window. Her response shocked me “yeah I never use my ashtray because I don’t want my car to stink”!!! Ummmm sorry bitch your car stinks if you smoke in it no matter where the butt ends up but if it is in your ashtray then you are a more pleasant member of our society.
Butt chuckers make my blood boil! I have suffered the humiliation of non smokers looking with revulsion at my ashtray when they have been in my car. I can live with that because I know I have never flung a butt out the window.
IT"S NOT A COIN DISH IF YOU SMOKE! STOP THROWING BUTTS OUT THE WINDOW YOU PIG!
I’ve read that in some countries, smokers will carry around a little metal tin for the purpose of snuffing and depositing a cigarette butt until it’s completely out and a proper disposal spot can be found. Also works as an impromptu ashtray. It’d certainly be a use for those empty Altoids tins, though those are much larger, IIRC, than what are used for this purpose.
On a (more) serious note, I am gathering a few decent ideas from some of the posts here. I will admit that I too am one of those guilty of not always snuffing my butt and disposing of it properly. (Pisses me off when it comes to merely cleaning up my backyard from having guests)
I think I may in fact take up a couple of these ideas for when I am not at my own homestead with the luxury of picking my butts up at my leisure.
Hmmmm, maybe not smoking would be a good option too?
I still stand by the fact that smoking weed would eliminate quite a few butts. If people smoked weed like we smoked cigarettes we would be too fucking wasted to litter.
I guess we would be picking each others asses up off of the ground as opposed to the butts of smokes.
-Me
After initially reading this thread yesterday, I left the house and drove to the grocery store.
After I parellel-parked near the market and exited the car, I smelled smoke. In the space between my car and the car behind mine, but near the curb, I saw a wisp of smioke coming out from the dry, tiny leaves there in the gutter. As I (and a pedestrian) went closer, we saw little fames and a cigarette butt at the spot where the leaves had been ignited. The pedestrian and I exclaimed on the cretinous nature of the person who had discarded their lit cigarette thusly. He took on the duty of stomping out the cigarette, as I scattered the leaves that were smoldering (I was wearing flip-flops, so sue me).
Oh! Did I mention that the dry leaves trailed along the gutter for about half a block, including under my car and others?
I take an Altoids tin when I go hiking in state parks. Works quite well.
A friend of mine just puts his lit cigarette back in the pack where it came from and closes the lid. The lack of oxygen puts it out, but I’d be afraid that it could screw with the taste of the remaining cigarettes in the pack.