Absurd?
Seems like a lot more people in this country die of tobacco-related illnesses than feces-related ones.
I however have never fallen in a pile of bullshit, and come out stinkin’ like daisies. Which is essentially what you’re saying. That statement is totally out of context in this discussion.
Wow, cigarettes are bad. Tell me something I didn’t know. At least I didn’t resort to Godwinizing, which is in effect what you did with your Goebbellian missive.
States of matter are nonexistant in your perplexy.
Not my habit. Only my opinion as to cigarette butts and their legislation relative to genuine and impending environmental violators. Kyoto Treaty, anybody?
I’ve smoked a pack a day for almost 20 years and I don’t think I’ve ever smoked inside a car.
I guess I don’t get out much.
My car has an ashtray, but I don’t smoke, so it’s a handy place to keep a couple of spare batteries for my MP3 player in case it runs out while I’m in the gym. The gym has cable tv and plays the most awful channels…usually r’n’b which seems to involve large blokes whining and shouting about how they haven’t got a job, can’t keep a relationship going, and have to have their name embroidered on their clothes so the police know what to give them back after a night in the cells. Oh, I must be getting old…
I used to throw them out the window until I got fined and wised up. I still tap the ash out the window, but the butts go in the ashtray, and I make passengers do the same.
I don’t smoke, but Dad did. He always used the ashtray. All my smoker friends use the ashtray.
One of my coworkers in Costa Rica smoked. The first time he did it in the car he was driving: he opened the window (at which point I said “hey!” g’darnit, do not open the windows with the a/c on) and flicked the ash off - getting such a chorus of “you pig!” that the car swerved. From then on he used the freaking ashtray and we made sure that he emptied it in trashcans, not on the floor.
If you ever catch me putting a filterless cigarette end on your lawn, you are more than welcome to put the same amount of raw sewage on my lawn.
I was too cheap to buy the smoking package with my '03 Civic, so I used a cola bottle full of water. My car actually smelled better than when I used the ashtray in other cars. And when I was done, I’d just screw the cap on and toss it when it was full.
And since I recently quit smoking, I have to leave this thread. I’m getting all drooly.
No, my ashtray has never been used- I know its an asshole thing to do, but I would rather not dirty it in case I ever sell it. Ashes and butts go out the window- the only littering I ever do.
I smoked in my car for years, but never threw the butts out the window. That’s not to say I never left them on the ground elsewhere (before you ask, I haven’t done *that * in many years), it just seemed somehow worse to fling them out the window. I stopped smoking while driving several years ago after an unfortunate incident where the cherry fell off and landed on my bare thigh. Owie wowie!
Please desist.
You can wash the ashtray. Put it in a dishwasher if you have one. It comes up good as new. You’re car’s going to stink anyway.
When I smoked I used to chuck the butts out the window because using the ashtray stinks up the car. I probably did this for about 20 years. One day driving down the south coast I threw out a butt and the guy behind me started blasting his horn and as he drove off on the off ramp he yelled at me to, “keep them in your own fucking car.” I was amazed as I had never knowingly been abused before. Since I considered myself a “considerate” smoker - no smoking in other people’s space unless invited, police my butts when I left, I had a think about it and stopped doing it for the rest of my smoking life.
I flick ash out the window sometimes, unconsciously, but I do try to use the ashtray (butts NEVER go out the window, and when I’m not in my car and smoking, I use my foot to scrape the ash off, step on the ash, and find a trash can or something later on) because Nevada’s a desert and even in the winter you can start a huge-ass fire with one tiny little lit cigarette. When I did this in PA people looked at me like I was nuts because it was so humid where I lived.
Just in case there’s no garbage cans around, though, I do have a portable ashtray that I keep in my purse. Marlboro sent it to me for free. It’s pretty nifty.
I have issues with 1) possibly starting a fire, 2) other people cleaning up my messes, and 3) possibly hitting motorcyclists in the face with it. A family friend (may he rest in peace) was into motorcycles and frequently complained about it.
~Tasha
What are cigarette filters made out of? I tried looking it up but it didn’t say whether or not they were biodegradable. I have always been under the impression that they were. As such, I have always flicked my butts out of my sunroof. I also have never had a problem with tossing an apple core or something onto the side of the expressway (not a person’s yard though). They will break down in a matter of days and add back to the environment not the landfill. If this is not the case with cigarette butts, I will have to consider changing my ways.
Also, if I flick my butt out of the sunroof and it smacks you in your windshield, you are driving to damn close.
Wikipedia is your friend: Cigarette filters. Filters may be made out of cellulose, but they don’t break down quickly. Anybody who’s had a job cleaning up after the general public knows that these things stick around for months if not years, and I’ve seen campsites in the backcountry untouched for over a year with cigarette butts in evidence. They also make a nasty choking hazard for wildlife, and I’m sure the nicotine- and chemical-laden tobacco doesn’t do anything good for animals, either.
I’m not sure what is so unclear about “DO NOT LITTER,” but it does seem to be a difficult concept for many (but thankfully not all) smokers to grasp.
Stranger
Even plain tobacco itself is hardly an innocuous biodegradeable product like fallen maple leaves. Most tobacco used in cigarettes has been treated with over 100 chemicals, 13 of which are not allowed in food by the FDA and 5 of which are considered hazardous by the EPA.
Cigarette filters accumulate the tobacco toxins. A single used filter can hold enough nicotine to make a toddler sick. Three can be deadly. I have treated a couple of cases of acute nicotine poisoning in youngsters who ingested or chewed on cigarette butts, and it was not a happy time for any of them.
Tell me again why people think it is okay to throw these things out of the windows of moving vehicles?
I smoke in the car. I do flick ash out the window but never, ever toss the butt. It’s littering, plain and simple, and it’s wrong.
My newish car does not have an ashtray, so I have a small glass, um, thingee with a lid that I use. That gets emptied into the garbage at home about every two days.
It peeves me greatly to see someone flick a butt out. I’ve heard of lit cigarettes being carelessly tossed out of passing cars and landing in a baby carriage.
Non-smoker here but my father smokes and tosses it. It really pisses me off but I can’t do anything about it. Actually I used to be only somewhat pissed off about it until a smoker who tossed their butt out the window actually HIT ME and left ash and a small burn on my sweater while I was biking. :mad: :mad: Ever since then I’ve felt nothing but anger towards those who so carelessly toss their shit around. Totally inconsiderate and well… let’s just say the Pit is place for me to express my true outrage.
I do notice quite a few people who do it but myperceptions may be coloured slightly from my experience…
It’s the same thing as a speed limit posting or stop sign. Most people think those are there for everyone else on the road - but not them.