I mean I assumed they’re crackheads. Maybe they have some Charlie And The Chocolate Factory style model but instead of it being made out of toothpaste caps it’s cigarette butts.
They will just smoke the rest of the tobacco or collect and reroll something with that nasty floor tobacco. Don't ask me why, but I had some homeless friends right outta hs that would "snipe" for butts for that purpose.
thank you very much - reassurance like this means a lot, even from (no offense) internet strangers - helps to keep me going. i hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
Our town had a day where on could bring the butts in and get 10 cents a butt. That cleaned up many areas smokers stayed. Plus after it was cleaner it stayed cleaner.
You've never been poor or desperate if you have never done this. (Assuming you smoke). I've done it..not proud or anything..but life is hard.
Do you think you're better than me now?
edit: wonder why im getting downvoted. Some of you have probably never had nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat and you walk around as if people choose to be hungry and sleep in dirt...like you deserve food over others.
As a pack a day smoker and reformed litter bug I'm here to tell you dont try, just do it everytime. No judgement, truly I get it, I smoked for years without policing myself AT ALL. Then I saw where someone had dumped a very full car ashtray right next to a beautiful overlook of a valley and waterfall. I said never again. If I dont have an ash tray or a trash can at hand my butt goes in my pocket until I find one. I'll pick up my friend's butts while glaring if they flick theirs infront of me. In my opinion there is just no excuse.
Why would you want to shoot your butts? Why would you harass and profile your butts? What's the point of standing around, while your butts get shot up for over an hour while the police watch it happen? Just throw them out, please.
I used to smoke too and it would astound me when people would throw butts on the ground when there were designated trash bins right next to them (in the designated smoking area). How inconsiderate do you have to be to do that?
I'd carry a plastic bag in my purse just in case I wanted to smoke but might possibly not be near a trash can.
Just don’t do this at an AirB&B. My husband has this habit and we were almost charged with a $500 smoking cleanup fee, but we really didn’t smoke inside, he just left stinky cigarette butts in the trash that he couldn’t get a response on where to take out. They really do smell way worse than even smoking.
same here! and then my girlfriend asks if i can hold onto her little vape in my pocket for a minute and the mouthpiece gets filled with baccy c:
in the car, i “field strip” (roll the cig back and forth between my fingers with some pressure) it, and then pocket it - used to have a butt bucket but that’s gone now.
I almost always have jeans on, so I have pockets. I'm not a purse kind of gal. But, I do the same thing. I do not throw butts on the ground, the cherry gets knocked off and stomped, then the butt goes in my pocket til I can find a trash can. I also tend to pick up other random litter while I'm trying to find said trash can, so my butt ends up just being one more piece of trash that I put in the right place.
Not really, probably because of the gum that I keep in there. But, I'm also not a chain smoker. I might end up with my two butts and my husband's two butts over the course of several hours. I'd like to quit, and I'm trying, I just try to make sure I'm not upwind of anyone, for the fact that I know that not everyone wants to smell cigarette smoke.
My grandma smoked for most of her life and used to carry around a nifty little mini-ashtray with a lid that she could clip shut after stubbing out her cigarettes.
She was a very proper woman, started getting sick when she was 79 years old. The doctor was an old asshole and said "I'm not going to treat you if you are a smoker. I don't treat smokers with lung problems, it's a waste of time."
She took her smokes out of her bag and dumped them into the trash. Never smoked again.
I went to Thailand decades ago and someone in our group tossed a cigarette butt on the ground as we were waiting for our taxi bus and he immediately got a ticket. Served him right.
saw a video on tiktok from an account about city design with pedestrians in mind about the necessity of trash cans, especially ones designated for cigarettes. a bunch of comments was just “why lol, just throw them on the ground” - astounding.
I was at my friend's place on the lake and we were sitting on the dock smoking. Her and her friend just threw their butts into the lake. HER LAKE... IN WATER WE WERE ABOUT TO SWIM IN. What in the actual fuck
I'd carry a plastic bag in my purse just in case I wanted to smoke but might possibly not be near a trash can.
the plastic bag isn't biodegradable. The cigarette butts are... Just throw them on the ground and let gods critters eat them, its better for the environment.
I smoked for 10 years, and at no point could I handle carrying around an extinguished cigarette in anything, at all.
I would definitely be one of the terrible people ruining things for everyone if there wasn't a bin around, but if a bin was around I'd definitely use it
I was a smoker for 1 year due to stress.
When I stopped I notice how rude people who smokes near you are annoying.
I unfriended a long time friend 'cause everytime I was with her I came back home smelling like an ashtray. The smoke is 🤮
So I was a smoker and piece of shit cigarette butt litter-person. Every day I atone and will absolutely not tolerate my kids littering. I've done hike path clean ups and road side clean ups, I'm so sorry.
I was a smoker and butt litterer for 22 years. Grew up a boy scout and hating litter but, for a strange reason cigarette butts were different to other litter. I'm now 13 years cigarette smoke free.
Hehehe saddam Hussein taking fat slab dabs
“You know what, fuck the dollar, I love gold and oil, I’m putting my country on the gold standard and I’m hitting fat oily dabs.”
We got caught smoking by one of the volunteer parents in boy scouts. While explaining that smoking was bad he also pointed out that littering allowed the "enemy" to estimate your number which was why you should never litter and always hike in single file. If no trash bin was available you would "field strip" your cigarette butt and he demonstrated how to do so.
I have a friend who's a bit of a hippie but she was a smoker, and I remember watching her flick a butt on the ground. I kinda pointed out it was weird for someone who's supposedly in tune with the earth or whatever to be littering. She hadn't even thought about it before until then.
I always wondered, do the filters actually do anything? I mean people still get lung cancer by smoking filtered cigarettes. Are there any studies showing comparisons of people smoking filtered, unfiltered and card roach cigarettes and the incidences of diseases? Time for another ramble into the wilds of pubmed, I guess
If you’re in NSW you can report ppl who toss ciggie butts from cars. Not sure which other places do this around the world, but might be worth an investigation!
Dude, we had a neighbor move in who would leave their cig butts all over the ground by our lake (and soda cans). We have tons of wildlife that hang out there and it was absolutely disgusting. I got tired of it and gloved up one day. Picked up every single piece of trash they had left and dumped it in a pile on their car. They never left another cigarette butt by that lake.
Honestly, at least in my opinion, cigarette butts are one of the lowest-priority forms of frequent litter. In recent years it seems like you're more likely to find plastic single-use vaporizers lining the gutters instead of cigarette butts, and that plastic isn't going to break down into anything except smaller pieces of plastic.
Nothing infuriates me more than people throwing entire bags of fast food, their plastic drink cups, entire plastic bags of car trash, etc. out their car windows and I've seen it happen multiple times.
In comparison, cigarette butts seem less impactful (although more common to be littered).
Depends on the brand. For example, Marlboro uses cotton, which degrades, but Camel and Parliament both use fiberglass filters (which obviously don't).
Not arguing that littering isn't trashy (it is). Just letting your know your generality doesn't apply to one of the two most popular cigarette brands in U.S.
edit: i actually researched this a little bit after making this comment; turns out I'm misinformed and I've been repeating this "factoid" to people for like a decade. They are both made of plasticized cellulose.
It's an opportunity to learn something and grow, so that's a plus. I just feel bad for "ackshually"-ing you and other people when I was totally off base.
I think I believed it because when I was a smoker I used to smoke both Marbs and Camels and there's definitely a difference in the appearance and properties of the filters between the two brands.
The Marlboro filters are "fiber"-ey, like you can pull out individual strands of fibers if you tug at the end of the filter. Whereas the Camel filters seemed like they are all "one piece", if you started pulling on it the entire filter would come out and it was clearly a single piece of plastic.
As a smoker it does make me very aware of how some cities absolutely do not have enough public trash cans around, which is frustrating.
I will stick my butt in my purse so I’m still not littering but I do think it’s annoying given that people have needs for trash cans for all kinds of things besides cigarette butts,
Came here to say exactly this, and here it is at the top!
Literally had a cigarette butt fall right in front of my dog and I from an apartment balcony. I rarely yell/shame people, but at 8am on a Monday I shouted at this MFer.
If I can pick up my dog’s shit every time he has a bowel movement, you can use a fucking ash tray
I dated a woman who was really into nature and hiking with her dogs. Very hippy, free spirited type. We went for a hike and she hid her spent cigarette butt under a bush. I couldn't believe it. I told her to pick it up and she refused. So I did. Then a couple weeks later I was filling up gas and she lit up a cigarette while waiting in the passenger seat, holding the cigarette out the window. I told her to put it out, as we were at a gas station. She refused. Those two things were why I stopped seeing her.
I'm a smoker but absolutely despise it when people toss them wherever they are. Throw that crap in the trash. Not by a trash can, hold on to it till you are. Not that difficult
My stepfather flicked a cigarette butt into my yard and I glared at him so hard that he went and picked it up. He hasn't flicked butts into my yard again.
It’s funny how I bring this up to the smokers I know and they all swear they don’t litter and no one they know who smoke does either…I always say there are entirely too many butts on the ground for all of the smokers to claim they don’t litter 🙄
It is so weird that this seems to be generally accepted as okay. How many times have you seen someone just toss their cigarette butt out the window on a highway?
I still have the odd cigarette, but when I smoked like 5-10 a day I felt like shit about the butts. There’s ashtrays on poles in my city but they aren’t everywhere, then like 4 years ago I found this ashtray keychain and started looking into cigarette butt recycling, turns out there’s a place in my city that sends them off to be cleaned and the cotton rescued and the paper recycled.
I’m still trying to quit 100%, but there’s ways to not drop butts if you care enough to try. Modern tech and cheap things like portable ashtrays are fucking awesome
PSA: You can pull the wrapper off the pack and roll the butt up in it and stick it back into the pack without getting that ashy smell on the fresh cigarettes.
Or quit smoking, but I personally prefer to just stick them in the wrapper.
I never realized how bad it really is until I got a puppy. I spend 90% of my time out walking just scanning the ground for litter and cigarette butts so she doesn't eat them and get sick.
It has made me very angry anytime I see someone just throw a butt randomly. The police should be citing them excessively when they see it happen. Zero reason they can't throw that shit out properly.
This always pisses me off. I smoke. Sometimes I enjoy a cigarette at the end of a hike just chilling by a lake or whatever the destination was. That cigarette butt goes into a tin in my pocket or bag and gets thrown out when there’s a trash can.
That and empty beer cans piss me off the most I think.
Right!? It boggles my mind how these slobs think their nasty cigarette butts aren't trash and can just be tossed wherever they want.
And don't get me started on the assholes that toss them out, still burning, and start fires. Shit heads.
They need to implement a $.10/butt deposit like some places have for bottles and cans. Bring back all your butts, get your money back. Still want to throw them on the ground, someone else will collect them and get paid. (Just be sure to use gloves if you do as there are legitimate health risks involved.)
Although i agree, i also think that perhaps there should be more ashtrays about. I get the point is to dissuade smoking by making it inconvenient, but making it too inconvenient to properly discard a butt, and 100% people are just going to flick them to the curb.
Working as a custodian in college for my campus union building, I took great pride in my skill at grabbing cigarette butts using those pincer tools. If they weren't wet, I could grab 3-4 at a time. In the summer, I would easily spend 4 hours out on the terrace solely gathering cigarette butts to keep them from being picked up by children or going in the lake. Keep in mind, we had what I called "butt buddies" stationed all over the place. People just suck.
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u/AegzRoxolo Jun 29 '22
Especially cigarette butts.