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Cigarette butts

  • 21-05-2009 4:03pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭


    I've always been curious about something. Why does practically every person who smokes in Ireland feel it's acceptable to throw cigarette butts on the streets? Things have gotten much worse since the smoking ban. Anytime I walk past a pub I see hundreds of cigarette butts on the footpath. It doesn't matter if the pub has one of those cigarette disposal bins attached to the wall, the majority of people still throw butts on the path. This isn't just confined to pubs though, it's pretty much everywhere. I find it virtually impossible to walk ten feet here (Carlow) without seeing at least one cigarette butt on the path. I've also had people (accidentally but carelessly) hit me with cigarette butts or flick ashes on my shoe when I've been walking past pubs or shops or even parked cars.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭Retrovertigo


    Cigarette butts on the street is one thing but ashes on your shoe? Outrageous!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    If I'm paying 5 euro tax on each pack you're lucky it's just fag butts that I discard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    I smoke.

    On streets/outside pubs or whatever, if there is a receptacle provided for my smoke butts, I use it.

    On streets where there is no such receptacle, I flick them away.

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    I think those little orange and brown butts brighten up the place as concrete grey is a tad dull :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭James Forde


    So what are you complaining here for.............

    Go and pick them up already


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I find staying indoors limits encounters with these nasty horrible littering smokers you speak of.

    You can order mostly everything online these days so really there's no need for anyone to go outside at all. Can't for the life of me understand why anyone would be bothered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Dlite


    I like cigarette butts and I can not lie...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i always put them in the top of the bins but when one isnt available i put throw them on the ground. i dont like doing it but im not going to burn my pockets


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    I hate the smell of cigarette filters when they go on fire. You'd often smell it from cigarette disposal units.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Des wrote: »
    I smoke.

    On streets/outside pubs or whatever, if there is a receptacle provided for my smoke butts, I use it.

    On streets where there is no such receptacle, I flick them away.

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?
    So you're saying that if you were in Pighead's house for dinner and the bin happened to be full you'd flick the cigarette somewhere on the ground rather than putting it in your pocket/beard? Disgraceful attitude and one that will ensure you shall never receive a dinner invite from this poster.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    Imagine we actuall enforced the litter laws? It'd solve the council's funding problems, that's for sure!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Tannylan


    "butt" out and mind your own business for butts sake:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭tommmy1979


    Des wrote: »

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?

    You're obviously trolling but...

    I'd pay good money to see you do that and the fag but hit the visor of the motorcycle cop riding behind you...:eek: uhoh spaghetti ohhhsss

    T


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    I don't smoke, don't like smokers but I must admit I do like see cigarette butts on the street. Theire orangey brown colour makes a nice contrast to the grey concrete and they are descrete compared to other litter such as crisp bags and empty bottles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    tommmy1979 wrote: »
    You're obviously trolling but...

    I'd pay good money to see you do that and the fag but hit the visor of the motorcycle cop riding behind you...:eek: uhoh spaghetti ohhhsss

    T

    Your Dollars are worthless here

    /assumption


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    I collect cigarette butts to make huge ones like this:
    cig4.jpg

    Why you ask? Because I can, That is all....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    tommmy1979 wrote: »
    You're obviously trolling but...

    I'd pay good money to see you do that and the fag but hit the visor of the motorcycle cop riding behind you...:eek: uhoh spaghetti ohhhsss

    T
    It would be even better if it was Robocop's visor that he hit. He would crush Des like a car crusher would do a car. He would crush him until he was flatter than Gwyneth Paltrows chest. Crush him until he was deader than a dodo. Crush him until he was sorrier than an AIB Chief Executive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭tommmy1979


    Des wrote: »
    I smoke.

    On streets/outside pubs or whatever, if there is a receptacle provided for my smoke butts, I use it.

    On streets where there is no such receptacle, I flick them away.

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?


    I've an idea !!! Genocide :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Mr.Lizard wrote: »
    I don't smoke, don't like smokers but I must admit I do like see cigarette butts on the street. Theire orangey brown colour makes a nice contrast to the grey concrete and they are descrete compared to other litter such as crisp bags and empty bottles.

    You took the words right out of Venom's mouth. It must have been when you were kissing him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    tommmy1979 wrote: »
    You're obviously trolling but...

    I'm not trolling.

    I do do them things.

    And Pighead, no, if I was in your house I'd probably smoke out the backyard, and flick the fag ends into the neighbours garden.

    Unless you provided an ashtray for indoor smoking.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Why does practically every person who smokes in Ireland feel it's acceptable to throw cigarette butts on the streets?

    Because they're uncivilised scumbags who put their convenience above a basic respect for their surroundings.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    If I'm paying 5 euro tax on each pack you're lucky it's just fag butts that I discard

    I agree. We are being taxed to the bollox for our fine tobacco so you can go and shite if you think we're gonna make it easier for the government.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Des wrote: »

    And Pighead, no, if I was in your house I'd probably smoke out the backyard, and flick the fag ends into the neighbours garden.
    Not if Pigheads neighbour was Robocop, you wouldn't. He'd crush you if you even thought about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Pighead wrote: »
    Not if Pigheads neighbour was Robocop, you wouldn't. He'd crush you if you even thought about it.

    Don't be silly, why would Robocop be your neighbour, he doesn't need a house?

    You've clearly bought into Robocop's outlandish claims that his name's Murphy and he's just a regular guy.
    He's not, he's just a machine.
    OCP just chuck him into a box at night when he's finished work.

    It's best not to listen to him, you'll only encourage him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    You've clearly bought into Robocop's outlandish claims that his name's Murphy and he's just a regular guy.
    He's not, he's just a machine.
    OCP just chuck him into a box at night when he's finished work.

    No they don't, he sits in a chair and "sleeps." Oh sure, the chair might be housed in a glass enclosure at the back of the police station, but it's still not a box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭SYLT


    Des wrote: »
    I smoke.

    On streets/outside pubs or whatever, if there is a receptacle provided for my smoke butts, I use it.

    On streets where there is no such receptacle, I flick them away.

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?

    You

    Are

    My

    Hero

    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Des wrote: »
    I smoke.

    On streets/outside pubs or whatever, if there is a receptacle provided for my smoke butts, I use it.

    On streets where there is no such receptacle, I flick them away.

    If I'm smoking in the car, they go out the window.

    Whatcha gonna do?
    Put if in the car ashtray? I know a motorbike rider who got blinded in one eye from an idiot who threw his cigarette butt out his window and hit him.:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Because they're uncivilised scumbags who put their convenience above a basic respect for their surroundings.
    Amen to that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Highsider wrote: »
    Put if in the car ashtray? I know a motorbike rider who got blinded in one eye from an idiot who threw his cigarette butt out his window and hit him.:mad:

    Should have had his visor down tbh.

    It could have been anything that blinded him, anything small enough to hit his eye with the visor up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭Mr. Gruff


    Highsider wrote: »
    Put if in the car ashtray? I know a motorbike rider who got blinded in one eye from an idiot who threw his cigarette butt out his window and hit him.:mad:

    Nothing stinks up a car quite like an ashtray full of stale butts.
    Well... maybe a meth lab or something,,,

    In before it'll smell of smoke anyway, If you open two windows while driving, you've got yourself nature's air conditioning system.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Des wrote: »
    Should have had his visor down tbh.

    It could have been anything that blinded him, anything small enough to hit his eye with the visor up.

    At a low speed its very unlikely that anything outside of a smoking hot ember will do any real damage, at speed it will be down.

    Ignoring that fact that it could go into his lap or any of the gaps in his bike gear. Would you think it was acceptable to flick cigarette ends at people? Because I don't see the difference in that situation.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Highsider wrote: »
    Put if in the car ashtray? I know a motorbike rider who got blinded in one eye from an idiot who threw his cigarette butt out his window and hit him.:mad:

    The mechanics of how that happened escape me. Did he just leave it in there for a few minutes or what? Bikers are hardcore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The mechanics of how that happened escape me. Did he just leave it in there for a few minutes or what? Bikers are hardcore.

    Nah, it landed in his mouth and he became addicted to them.

    That ultimately led to cataracts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Non-smokers are all a bunch of whining maggots :D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Non-smokers are all a bunch of whining maggots :D

    That's a somewhat less than charitable aspersion to make my man.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Overblood


    I hate the smell of cigarette filters when they go on fire. You'd often smell it from cigarette disposal units.

    Awww


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Highsider wrote: »
    Put if in the car ashtray? I know a motorbike rider who got blinded in one eye from an idiot who threw his cigarette butt out his window and hit him.:mad:
    It seems most drivers don't want to get their car ashtrays dirty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    You took the words right out of Venom's mouth. It must have been when you were kissing him.

    It was actually. You sound jealous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Because they're uncivilised scumbags who put their convenience above a basic respect for their surroundings.

    That's probably the most accurate answer.
    The council planted trees in a street here in Carlow. The tree pots were there for about three years and nothing ever grew because smokers kept discarding their butts in the clay. The council ended up getting rid of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    Overblood wrote: »
    Awww

    Awww what?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    That's probably the most accurate answer.
    The council planted trees in a street here in Carlow. The tree pots were there for about three years and nothing ever grew because smokers kept discarding their butts in the clay. The council ended up getting rid of them.

    The smokers were in fact attempting to cultivate a cigarette tree. Government taxes drove them to such desperate measures.

    Alas it was a foolhardy endeavour, you can't just grow tobacco like. We'll have to keep importing it from 19th Century South Carolina indefinitely I'm afraid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    OP there was a thread few weeks ago on this with some heated discussion..

    Carlow is a dyke anyway luckily for you i only throw my cig butts around the IT:pac:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Awww what?

    A w-w-w-w-wabbit


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    If I'm paying 5 euro tax on each pack you're lucky it's just fag butts that I discard
    By that logic if I buy expensive food I should be able to crap all over the streets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,782 ✭✭✭P.C.


    I was driving down the road one sunny day last year. I had my sunroof open, enjoying the loverly weather.

    Next thing I know, a still burning cigarette but lands on the passenger seat. By the time that I pulled over and threw it out, it had burned a hole in the seat. :eek::mad:

    Luckely it did not land in my lap.
    But, this has cost me a lot of money, and all because someone decided to throw their cigarette but out the window. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    By that logic if I buy expensive food I should be able to crap all over the streets.

    if you got a serious problem with people smoking and dropping butts on the ground i suggest you travel back in time to the discovery of tobacco and shoot those tree huggers down

    posting threads about it, campaigning about it or hell even going on a ciggerette dropping mofo shooting spree isnt going to change a damn thing, your like a 1000 years to late to care


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I agree. We are being taxed to the bollox for our fine tobacco so you can go and shite if you think we're gonna make it easier for the government.
    It's not just about the government. Your fellow countrymen/women might not want to have to look at butts everywhere they walk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    P.C. wrote: »
    I was driving down the road one sunny day last year. I had my sunroof open, enjoying the loverly weather.

    Next thing I know, a still burning cigarette but lands on the passenger seat. By the time that I pulled over and threw it out, it had burned a hole in the seat. :eek::mad:

    Luckely it did not land in my lap.
    But, this has cost me a lot of money, and all because someone decided to throw their cigarette but out the window. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
    Maybe you should stop driving in people's blind spot then?


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    If I'm paying 5 euro tax on each pack you're lucky it's just fag butts that I discard

    Think of it as a health care tax, statistically you'll cost the HSE more in your life then somebody that doesn't smoke :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Non-smokers are all a bunch of whining maggots :D
    If you ever walk past a shop or pub and have a cigarette butt land on your arm it will hurt just as much whether you're a smoker or non-smoker.


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