Why don't smokers regard cig' butts as litter

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 4:05pm #1

As the title says. Im sure most smokers wouldnt throw (other) litter about so why do a vast majority of the beggers chuck their cig butts on the ground?
Well?

Mr. Manager · 13-07-2011 4:07pm

They do, they just don't care to put them in bins

Alter-Ego · 13-07-2011 4:07pm

Because smokers are cooler than non smokers.

orourkeda · 13-07-2011 4:07pm

The fact they are giving themselves cancer suggests a few butts wont keep them awake at night

jimthemental · 13-07-2011 4:08pm

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

They do, they just don't care to put them in bins

Sure they're a fire hazard, surely burning rubbish is more harmful to the environment than a bit of biodegradable litter?

who the fug · 13-07-2011 4:08pm

I don't you tips, so they be organic waste for the flowers

I be mighty green

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 4:10pm

jimthemental wrote: »

Sure they're a fire hazard, surely burning rubbish is more harmful to the environment than a bit of biodegradable litter?

Ah. But they arent biodegradeable though unlike paper.... which is also litter:)

ScumLord · 13-07-2011 4:10pm

Smoke rollies, completely biodegradable.

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 4:10pm

who the fug wrote: »

I don't you tips, so they be organic waste for the flowers

I be mighty green

Wha?

Temptamperu · 13-07-2011 4:11pm

i would never dream of flicking a but on the ground, I have a system where i twist the mickey off and wait till i find a bin to discard the butt.

cowzerp · 13-07-2011 4:11pm

You have to be a moron to smoke so maybethats your answer.

strobe · 13-07-2011 4:12pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

As the title says. Im sure most smokers wouldnt throw (other) litter about so why do a vast majority of the beggers chuck their cig butts on the ground?
Well?

I'd imagine the people that throw their smoke buts on the ground are the same people that throw other litter on the ground.

I smoked for 16 years (Jesus! Never worked that number out before... I'm only in my 20's) and always stubbed my smokes out on the side of a bin and stuck them in there. I also put all my food wrappers etc in bins too though.

Yakult · 13-07-2011 4:12pm

jimthemental wrote: »

than a bit of biodegradable litter?

Supposedly that's a myth. The plastic in the filters can take years to decompose.

I just throw my butts down a drainage hole if their are any "cigarette bins" around.

jimthemental · 13-07-2011 4:13pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Ah. But they arent biodegradeable though unlike paper.... which is also litter:)

Fine, at worst they are slightly less annoying than chewing gum on footpaths. I don't smoke too often anymore but when I do I do get rid properly.

wild_cat · 13-07-2011 4:13pm

I'm a smoker. A heavy enough smoker for my age as well. I have had to put smokes in my pockets and handbag to avoid throwing them on the ground before.

I hate when people do it. It's very rude and is the exact same as litter.

I also smoke rollies with a cardboard roach.. so even if I did fling em on the ground they biodegrade fairly fast.

TheZohanS · 13-07-2011 4:14pm

I am a smoker.

I throw my waste in the bin.

wild_cat · 13-07-2011 4:14pm

Yakult wrote: »

Supposedly that's a myth. The plastic in the filters can take years to decompose.

Five years I've heard. I'm not arsed googling it.

CardBordWindow · 13-07-2011 4:15pm

I put out the cigarette on the ground, and then eat the butt! High in fibre.

Am I the only one?

jimthemental · 13-07-2011 4:15pm

cowzerp wrote: »

You have to be a moron to smoke so maybethats your answer.

Really?
http://lesargotiers.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/einstein-pipe.jpg

the groutch · 13-07-2011 4:16pm

Because of their superiority complex

Wazdakka · 13-07-2011 4:16pm

I rarely smoke anywhere that doesn't have an ashtray.
Home, pub etc..
but when I do, I always make sure that the butt is fully extinguished and then I put in a bin.

Biodegradable or not, it is litter..

I never understood people just flicking them on the street

Wazdakka · 13-07-2011 4:21pm

Temptamperu wrote: »

i would never dream of flicking a but on the ground, I have a system where i twist the mickey off and wait till i find a bin to discard the butt.

:eek:
That's one hell of a system..
And you twist the mickey off every time you have a cigarette?
In public?

I've never heard the tip / cherry called "the mickey" before.. I'm way too south county Dublin for my own good

prinz · 13-07-2011 4:22pm

Bugs the hell out of me. Spent a while outside a hospital recently where all the smokers were gathering, and the only thing more depressing than the amount of people in hospital gowns coughing and spluttering as they shuffled to the place then lighting up, was the amount of scumbags who dropped their butts etc on the ground, even though there were two of the thin bins with the ashtray tops on them within a couple of feet. One dopey bint went as far as walking to the bin, putting the end of her cig out on the top of the bin on the little grate, then flicked it away onto the ground which took more effort than leaving it on/in the bin. I've also known some of the muppets who do this to also complain about certain pub's smoking areas being filthy.. Mind boggling stuff.

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-07-2011 4:26pm

I need a smoke right now

Alter-Ego · 13-07-2011 4:30pm

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I put out the cigarette on the ground, and then eat the butt! High in fibre.

Am I the only one?

I like to save them up and put them in a sandwich. A fag butt butty if you will.

cursai · 13-07-2011 4:31pm

Why don't non smokers regard Supermacs wrappers as litter
As the title says. Im sure most non smokers wouldnt throw (other) litter about so why do a vast majority of the beggers chuck their Supermacs wrappers on the ground?
Well?

zenno · 13-07-2011 4:34pm

orourkeda wrote: »

The fact they are giving themselves cancer suggests a few butts wont keep them awake at night

jeasus you don't have to be a smoker to get cancer. no one on my side of the family ever got cancer and they were all heavy smokers and lived a long fulfilling life.

well it is a dirty habbit but so is gorging on mac donalds food and having to use the toilet, well i always dispose of my cigg buts in the bin as the filters take forever to dispose themselves. no point in throwing the butts on the ground if there is a bin close by imo.

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 4:34pm

cursai wrote: »

Why don't non smokers regard Supermacs wrappers as litter
As the title says. Im sure most non smokers wouldnt throw (other) litter about so why do a vast majority of the beggers chuck their Supermacs wrappers on the ground?
Well?

Well what?

Mr. Manager · 13-07-2011 4:35pm

jimthemental wrote: »

Sure they're a fire hazard, surely burning rubbish is more harmful to the environment than a bit of biodegradable litter?

As en ex-smoker I used to chuck 'em on the ground... the smell of burning fag ends in a bin is gross.

Knasher · 13-07-2011 4:37pm

Whenever my flatmates girlfriend comes over she covers the balcony in butts. I can kinda understand why people do it on the street, it's an asshole move but, you quickly move on and blend into the crowd. But when you're a guest in somebodies home and the only one there who smokes, it doesn't take a genius to realise who is littering my apartment.

Alter-Ego · 13-07-2011 4:41pm

She probably doesn't even think about it. Its just a bad habit that you get into. Not excusable though.

But if you think that's bad, I have a mate who used to flick his ashes on the floor when ever he came over. He was told to stop it or GTFO.

zenno · 13-07-2011 4:41pm

Knasher wrote: »

Whenever my flatmates girlfriend comes over she covers the balcony in butts. I can kinda understand why people do it on the street, it's an asshole move but, you quickly move on and blend into the crowd. But when you're a guest in somebodies home and the only one there who smokes, it doesn't take a genius to realise that your littering my apartment.

she is just an idiot with no respect for her surroundings or her flatmates I mean that's why they invented ashtrays. does she even know what an ashtray is ? ask her next time.

13-07-2011 4:45pm

Id never throw litter on the ground but when I smoked I always flicked butts on the ground or out the window of the car, just never thought of it as litter (although it obviously is) as its so common for people to do it.

Mike 1972 · 13-07-2011 4:46pm

cursai wrote: »

Why don't non smokers regard Supermacs wrappers as litter

Non Smokers > Supermacs Clientelle

latenia · 13-07-2011 4:51pm

We pay over €1 billion a year in excise duty with nothing in return except cancer and heart disease so I think this little misdemeanour is allowable. If there's no bin around I'll look for a shore to flick it into, otherwise it'll go in the gutter.

I await being called filthy littering scum...

Pace2008 · 13-07-2011 4:56pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Wha?

I'm guessing he was trying to say "I don't use tips," by which I'd say he means he smokes rollies with no filter, in which case the cigarette would be completely biodegradable.

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 4:57pm

latenia wrote: »

We pay over €1 billion a year in excise duty with nothing in return except cancer and heart disease so I think this little misdemeanour is allowable. If there's no bin around I'll look for a shore to flick it into, otherwise it'll go in the gutter.

I await being called filthy littering scum...

I dont. :rolleyes:

NoDice · 13-07-2011 4:57pm

It infuriates me.

I actually regard it to be as bad as spitting. Disgusting walking through a nice park and there are cig butts everywhere despite there being bins every couple of feet. Or even worse, where I wait for the bus it seems the smokers there have a secret competition running to see how far they can flick their cigarette. Really disgusts me.

Ha ha, actually (and I laugh because I think my dog is part jack russel, part king charles and part rtard) I was walking my dog the other day. She has a habit, when she gets tired, of letting her tongue hang out when she's walking. She has a pretty long tongue and very short legs.. Anyway, it acts like a spoon when she's dragging it along. She turned around at one point and had about 2 or 3 cig butts stuck to it. Puke. Poor doggy! :pac:

By the way I'm a smoker.

Mike 1972 · 13-07-2011 5:01pm

latenia wrote: »

We pay over €1 billion a year in excise duty.

Motorists pay even more.

So I can now drive/park like an antisocial pr1ck with complete impunity ?

pablomakaveli · 13-07-2011 5:02pm

I used to work in a railway station for a summer job and had to sweep up all the hundreds fag butts around the outside of the station.

Funnily enough none of the smokers ever threw the butts on the ground when i was sweeping a few metres from them.

cursai · 13-07-2011 5:03pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Well what?

Seriously! Per size of litter. This report is telling me that if we put all the cig butts into one heap and any other litter into another heap. The fag heap would be almost equal less 5%.

Come on now. Get up owwa that garden!

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 5:03pm

Pace2008 wrote: »

I'm guessing he was trying to say "I don't use tips," by which I'd say he means he smokes rollies with no filter, in which case the cigarette would be completely biodegradable.

So? Fruit and veg and paper is biodegradeable so is it ok to chuck that on the streets?

TheZohanS · 13-07-2011 5:07pm

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Motorists pay even more.

So I can now drive/park like an antisocial pr1ck with complete impunity ?

Only if you smoke and drive.

cursai · 13-07-2011 5:12pm

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Motorists pay even more.

So I can now drive/park like an antisocial pr1ck with complete impunity ?

I just flicked a fag butt at your username in disgust!:)

Anyways i found proof to the contrary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2003/aug/07/shopping.health

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 5:14pm

cursai wrote: »

Seriously! Per size of litter. This report is telling me that if we put all the cig butts into one heap and any other litter into another heap. The fag heap would be almost equal less 5%.

Come on now. Get up owwa that garden!

Ah well if its relative scale that you are hung up on then what is the ratio between smokers and non smokers i wonder....
Then take a peek outside any hospital entrance, pub door way or such and compare smokers litter to any other. Shucks theres even as many butts as burger boxes out side of Supermacs and they dont sell cigs!

Seachmall · 13-07-2011 5:17pm

cowzerp wrote: »

You have to be a moron to smoke so maybe thats your answer.

Smoking is evolutionarily novel which would suggest intelligent people are more likely to smoke than others.

The more ya' know.

Ghost Buster · 13-07-2011 5:19pm

Seachmall wrote: »

Smoking is evolutionarily novel which would suggest intelligent people are more likely to smoke than others.

The more ya' know.

Once upon a time........ back in the days when Camels were the cigarette of choice amongst American Doctors etc
The more ya know indeed.

Emiko · 13-07-2011 5:25pm

I was reading recently that just one cigarette butt will toxify a litre of water, and kill half the species contained therein.

So don't put your cigarettes out in your goldfish bowl.

3ndahalfof6 · 13-07-2011 5:44pm

As a smoker myself, I think its A disgrace, to think all of the new laws introduced to try to wipe us out, flicking a cigarette butt when just finished smoking your latest coffin nail (some people say) is the completion act,

it is one of the last few connections we have to the Irishness of the past, trying to take this away from us is a human rights violation,

if this was an native American tradition there would be people crawling from every corner to shout, scream, chain themselves to stuff,

but nooooooooo not in good ould Ireland, lets get rid of our heritage with closed eyes.

I am so annoyed right now, when will the Irish pull together and save what little we have left.

Knasher · 13-07-2011 6:01pm

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

As a smoker myself, I think its A disgrace, to think all of the new laws introduced to try to wipe us out, flicking a cigarette butt when just finished smoking your latest coffin nail (some people say) is the completion act,

it is one of the last few connections we have to the Irishness of the past, trying to take this away from us is a human rights violation,

if this was an native American tradition there would be people crawling from every corner to shout, scream, chain themselves to stuff,

but nooooooooo not in good ould Ireland, lets get rid of our heritage with closed eyes.

I am so annoyed right now, when will the Irish pull together and save what little we have left.

Smoking part of our Irish heritage??? Being told to not litter is a human rights violation??? I strongly suspect you're only having a laugh so I won't rise to the bait and argue against that. Because seriously, that's just silly.

pablomakaveli · 13-07-2011 6:38pm

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

As a smoker myself, I think its A disgrace, to think all of the new laws introduced to try to wipe us out, flicking a cigarette butt when just finished smoking your latest coffin nail (some people say) is the completion act,

it is one of the last few connections we have to the Irishness of the past, trying to take this away from us is a human rights violation,

if this was an native American tradition there would be people crawling from every corner to shout, scream, chain themselves to stuff,

but nooooooooo not in good ould Ireland, lets get rid of our heritage with closed eyes.

I am so annoyed right now, when will the Irish pull together and save what little we have left.

Ya screw the poor sods that have to clean up after you. I'm sure knowing they're preserving your "heritage" will be adequate consolation.

Why don't smokers regard cig' butts as litter

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