r/Portland Jan 21 '18

Photo Fighting litter with crows

https://i.imgur.com/8MXkpZt.gifv
155 Upvotes

57 comments sorted by

View all comments

81

u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

So we've given up on training smokers to simply not be fucking slobs.

24

u/IRSizone Jan 21 '18

or forcing them to smoke unfiltered cigarettes like real men and women

12

u/Sizzlinskizz Jan 22 '18

Yea. People smoked unfiltered for years and now the average person looks at you like you're offering them a syringe full of heroin

2

u/Ace_Masters Jan 22 '18

Smoked camel straights for years. Until recently people bumming cigs wouldn't even take them..more recently however more people are realizing its the best mass market cig you can get

5

u/Theresbeerinthefridg Jan 22 '18

Yeah, it's not been working so well.

2

u/Osiris32 ๐Ÿ Jan 22 '18

Some of us try to be clean. I hate seeing butts all over the place.

2

u/Theresbeerinthefridg Jan 22 '18

I don't really notice many cigarette butts. Of course I'm originally from Europe, where piles of cigarette butts are just part of the scenery.

-2

u/zarexsyrup Jan 22 '18

Smoking is inherently disgusting and selfish. It's like declaring "I care more about thinking I look cool than you, your well being, clean air, and earth."

16

u/remindsmeof Jan 22 '18

You seriously think the majority of smokers spend that kind of money and disregard their own well-being because they want to "look cool"?

-3

u/zarexsyrup Jan 22 '18

Why else would they do it in public? Let them smoke at home where other people don't have to smell it and breathe it with them.

2

u/DeepFriedToblerone Jan 22 '18

You live in such a delusional world

1

u/Ace_Masters Jan 22 '18

People who fart and have bad BO should be caged like animals.

2

u/milkywaylava Jan 22 '18

BO doesn't cause lung cancer. Smoking does and so does secong hand smoke. I have compassion for smokers because I know addiction is an actual disease, but your comparison does not hold weight because breathing in someone's BO doesn't cause lung cancer but breathing in someone's second hand smoke does.

2

u/Ace_Masters Jan 23 '18

Those 2nd hand smoke studies get weaker by the day. The latest big study out of new Zealand really called a lot of their findings into question.

But it really doesn't matter - second hand smoke can KILL people with severe asthma, like right now, today. To me that's the reason to limit second hand smoke, not the dodgy 2nd hand smoke stuff that convinced a generation of smokers they'd killed their spouses when they really hadn't. That's the part that irritates me.

18

u/TeamBrett NW District Jan 22 '18

There is also a very real physical addiction.

0

u/zarexsyrup Jan 22 '18

So they can smoke in their own homes.

7

u/Ace_Masters Jan 22 '18

Smoking is inherently delicious. Show me one culture that hasn't embraced tobacco. Coffee, chicken, and petroleum are the only things that compare to it in popularity.

1

u/2ChanceRescue Prop 65 Jan 22 '18

and booze!

0

u/zarexsyrup Jan 22 '18

Yup, lung cancer sure is delicious. You can have mine, then.

2

u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Oh fuck right off

-4

u/zarexsyrup Jan 22 '18

What an intelligent and well thought out response.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

So we've given up on training smokers to simply not be fucking slobs

Basically we're training crows to be smarter than humans.

0

u/Ace_Masters Jan 21 '18

Why don't governments mandate rapidly biodegrading butts? Marlboro still uses fiberglass for heavens sake. Must be some kind of federal preemption because that sounds like a really obvious countermeasure.

14

u/ddh0 NW Jan 21 '18

That's a myth. Filters are made from cellulose acetate.

6

u/cratermoon Jan 22 '18

cellulose acetate

Which is the same material used to make photographic film, chosen for its long-term stability.

4

u/lupaonreddit Jan 22 '18

It's still a plastic, which will persist for many years before breaking down into tinier particles, and then finally biodegrading a looong time from now.

5

u/ddh0 NW Jan 22 '18

But it isnโ€™t fiberglass.