Oh, and I smoke and drive all the time. I can easily hold my cigarette and the steering wheel at the same time. Amazing, I know. I also have one of those neat little ashtray cup deals that sits on my window that I often put my smoke into, so I don’t even need to hold it.
It’s also not distracting to smoke, unlike talking on a cellphone. I have full head-turning range. I’m not trying to focus on talking into my death stick.
Basically, smoking in the car for me is like listening to the radio. Not all-consuming.
Somehow, I’ve never smelled smoke from another person’s car. I’ve been fogged out by exhaust, but not smoke. I’m not saying it’s not happeneing to you, but I, personally, have never smelled another person’s smoke. Even before I started smoking and got used to it, if you’re gonna use that excuse. And I’ve seen plenty of people smoking beside/in front of me in rush hour stopped-dead traffic.
In your vehicle there’s this thingy called an “ashtray.” If your vehicle doesn’t have one, they can be purchased rather cheaply. BTW, in Washington State, where I live, you can get fined about $950 for flicking a lit smoke out of your vehicle. I think the fine is reasonable. I live in the Seattle area (supposedly Rain Central [sup]tm[/sup]), and this summer was very dry. There were quite a few brushfires being put out in a major fucking metro area because fucksticks with your apparent attitude decided that flicking a butt out of a moving vehicle was no big deal. I drive for a living, and witnessed many traffic clusterfucks caused by shitheads like you.
Also, are you retarded? You can simply pinch off the fire, put it out, and stick the remainder in your pocket if no ashtray is available. Simple. Like you.
Are you one of those swine that also wipes boogers on public restroom walls because no designated snotrags are provided?
I’ve taken to carrying an empty cig pack with me and disposing of my butts in there if there’s no ashtray around (also, since the car I’m in now temporarily doesn’t have one).
Works like magic, and helps to keep non-smokers off yer ass. Well, gives 'em one less thing to bitch about, anyway.
Also, are you retarded? You can simply pinch off the fire, put it out, and stick the remainder in your pocket if no ashtray is available. Simple. Like you.
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I actually do that in the woods, because I heard deer might eat the butts and get sick.
But I fail to see that risk, nor the risk of fire, on pavement downtown. Besides, I snuff the butt out on the pavement with my foot when I toss it.
I find that toilet paper works just as well. I’d prefer kleenex to the 2-ply stuff in public restrooms that’s meant for my ass, but both are preferrable to wiping it on the walls. The walls are for writing.
As for your anecdote about local laws, once again I’m sooooooo glad I don’t live in Washington state or Oregon. Those states always seem to me like either police-states or mommy-states, depending on the issue. I don’t think you can sneeze in those states without calling the government and asking if it’s OK.
ISTR that there’s a body-chemistry issue that causes tobacco to have an effect on some people but not others. I don’t have a cite offhand, but I think there’s a cite in the the book The Tipping Point by Gladwell.
Jeez, isn’t it strange how second-hand cigarette smoke, outdoors, 50 feet away, has only really started whacking athsmatics in the last 10 years. Never used to between the 50s and the 80s. Maybe the “athsma virus” has got a whole hell of a lot worse. Or maybe people are now so hyped up about cigarettes that they get hysterical about them? I look forward to Morrigoon’s pit threads about buses, cars, trucks, and barbecues.
