# Steophan, throwing cigarette butts on the ground IS littering **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078 "2010-10-23T06:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/181 "2010-10-31T00:15:08Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Found this picture timely: > [http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/page/2/](http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/page/2/) 3rd picture down. > And with respect to the beer cans- too much litter is exactly why the beer and soda companies had to adopt new cans with stay on tabs. Well, that and the fact that so many people were being injured by them in parks, at beaches, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/182 "2010-10-31T01:36:21Z")
I thought the point was accountability and who should be. Who should be rightly accountable for any type of litter? Companies that produce products that are then littered? Or individuals who litter the products? It could be cigarette butts, bottle caps, soda pop tabs, etc. It’s ultimately the responsibility of the individual to dispose of refuse properly. Whether it’s in a convenient situation to do so or not. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/183 "2010-10-31T17:57:02Z")
In Colorado, we have VERY strict laws about littering. And yes a cigarette butt is litter. $1000 (nope that’s not a typo $1000) fine. Drop your cigarette or fast food wrapper in my state and I very, very much hope you get hit with the $1000 fine. We have very, very little litter in Colorado. I want to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/184 "2010-10-31T18:00:01Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m just asking questions here, not making any accusations, but did anyone else notice the alliterative similarity between the names **Morella** and **rachelellogram**? Who’s Morella? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/185 "2010-10-31T18:03:29Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Who’s Morella? Morella’s dead, baby. Morella’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/186 "2010-11-01T12:20:04Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Don’t be an ass and slander libertarians. Any genuine libertarian would acknowledge - and promote the idea - that littering is wrong because it’s not one’s own property. If you litter on public property, it’s littering on everyone else’s property, which is not okay. **rachelellogram** is clearly off his/her own rocker. I dislike libertarians enough to slander and libel them regularly, but you did notice that I used the capitalized word Libertarians, right? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/187 "2010-11-02T20:17:53Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Found this picture timely: > [http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/page/2/](http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/page/2/) 3rd picture down. That’s a completely fucking retarded way to link to something in a blog. See, there’s this crazy thing called “time,” and as it “passes,” new things get “posted” to the “front” “page” so that your post won’t be “the third one down on the second page” for any longer than it takes the next entry to go up. Next time, click on the TITLE OF THE POST YOU WANT TO LINK TO, and that will take you to that individual post, which you can then link. I assume this is what you were going for: [http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/2010/10/23/funny-signs-good-french-fry-stealing-bastards/](http://oddlyspecific.failblog.org/2010/10/23/funny-signs-good-french-fry-stealing-bastards/) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/188 "2010-11-02T20:23:15Z")
^ you fuckin’ crack me up lol ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/189 "2010-11-02T20:23:57Z")
Wow. Ok, then. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/190 "2010-11-02T21:18:32Z")
:cues “The More You Know” rainbow: ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/191 "2010-11-02T21:25:20Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Wow. > > Ok, then. Don’t you know this da pit, bitch? Aint no time for fake links, false links and blank links in da thread game. Step your link game up or fuck off to MSPMISS or whatever the fuck. Fuck outta here with your links to nowhere. Falselinkwad. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/192 "2010-11-02T21:30:07Z")
[really deep voice] Yeah! [/really deep voice] ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/193 "2010-11-02T21:53:13Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Don’t you know this da pit, bitch? Aint no time for fake links, false links and blank links in da thread game. Step your link game up or fuck off to MSPMISS or whatever the fuck. Fuck outta here with your links to nowhere. Falselinkwad. Damn, bitch. You can’t tell me what to do. 😃 The sad truth is that I tried linking the right way and the fucking thing wouldn’t work. So I said to myself, “self, fuck 'em. Make 'em work for it.”. And that’s what I did. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/194 "2010-11-03T00:43:05Z")
Link fight! Link fight! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/195 "2010-11-03T19:16:06Z")
How, exactly, did you “try”? Like, take a screenshot and then try to paste in the location of the screenshot of your computer? Because for the record, that would also be retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/196 "2010-11-03T19:20:00Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > How, exactly, did you “try”? Like, take a screenshot and then try to paste in the location of the screenshot of your computer? Because for the record, that would also be retarded. What? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/197 "2010-11-03T19:26:07Z")
I’m saying that there’s no way that \*\*IvoryTowerDenizen \*\*could have “tried” to post the correct link to that post that wouldn’t also have been as retarded as what they ended up actually doing. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/198 "2010-11-03T20:09:03Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I’m saying that there’s no way that \*\*IvoryTowerDenizen \*\*could have “tried” to post the correct link to that post that wouldn’t also have been as retarded as what they ended up actually doing. I’m not a they. On the website is a box with a URL to copy for a particular image, for embedding the picture. Using my tapatalk app the copied URL would paste, but the resulting link was not hot. Therefore the link wouldn’t work. Selecting the photo also did not bring up a usable link on my phone. So there you go. I had started a post, technology got in my way and I jerry rigged a so-so successful solution for to tell minor joke. And FWIW, using “retarded” over this is not making me the one who looks stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/199 "2010-11-03T20:14:02Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I’m saying that there’s no way that \*\*IvoryTowerDenizen \*\*could have “tried” to post the correct link to that post that wouldn’t also have been as retarded as what they ended up actually doing. Ok, we know. whocareswhateverletitgo. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078/200 "2010-11-03T20:28:22Z")
OK, four pages later and I think we’ve established that dropping a cigarette butt is in fact littering, most people find littering bad and I chose a less than successful way to link to a funny picture. I think this thread has run its course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-throwing-cigarette-butts-on-the-ground-is-littering/558078.md?page=11)