Comments on: 10 Things You Should Know About Cigarette Butt Litter

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:05:35 +0000

Just trying to get rid of my subscription. Bye.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:52:13 +0000

But just think how smug and superior you get to feel. Doesn’t it give you a nice glow?

By: SQ

SQ — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:26:05 +0000

Well, said, Linda. I have become increasingly disgusted and concerned about cigarette butt litter in particular after noticing lately that it’s EVERYWHERE!!! Why do smokers think it’s OK to throw their litter – poisonous litter at that – anywhere they like? The problem is that enforcement just isnt’ there. I regularly see people throwing their butts on the ground, out their car windows, like it’s no big deal. Next time you’re at a stop light, look at the ground – it’s COVERED with butts! We were in Cuba this spring and I was disgusted to see smokers throwing their butts in planters, near the pool, everywhere – shame on you if you do this.
And please, lets lobby to get law enforcement to take this more seriously and start charging people the same way they would if they caught them throwing a pop can on the ground.

By: Idle Whispers

Idle Whispers — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:25:08 +0000

“I had no idea the feeling of throwing their dirty mouth things into the public shared space is part of the smoker’s high.”

Maybe you had no idea because it isn’t so?

By: Odo

Odo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:11:29 +0000

Getting Smokers to Quit Littering
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus30-2008nov30,0,679460.column?track=ntothtml

By: Odo

Odo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:06:28 +0000

“For people who smoke, tossing a butt on the ground is part of the whole ritual,” said Thomas Novotny, a professor of epidemiology at UC San Francisco who focuses on cigarette butts. “It’s not considered litter.”

It’s true, it is one of the most offensive things about smokers. That they so casually throw this crap in our faces has always bothered me. I had no idea the feeling of throwing their dirty mouth things into the public shared space is part of the smoker’s high. I wonder how they block out the fact that it is, in fact, litter, and offensive litter at that.

By: liozzi

liozzi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:05:56 +0000

The way I see it it shouldn’t be a smoking/nonsmoking issue. Litter is litter. narrowing the focus to cigarette butts implies that it’s ok to litter so long as it’s not cigarette butts. In reality the article was written in such a way that it doesn’t promote an anti-litter agenda, it promotes an anti-smoking agenda. If you want to promote an anti-smoking agenda, then be honest and do so. If you want to promote an anti-litter agenda, then do so.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:21:02 +0000

Just because some of you feel the need (for whatever bizarre reason) to state how inaccurate this article is, it doesn’t mean that this isn’t a a big, DIGUSTING problem. Setting the statistic aside, I can personally say that when I’m at the beach, there is nothing that make me want to barf more than having nasty cigarette butts squish between my toes! Who cares about statistics, it’s a problem that could be fixed by people being responsible enough to dispose of their cancer sticks properly. It’s called being considerate!

By: Chat

Chat — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:17:14 +0000

Litter sucks. However you seem to be exaggerating. A reliable source or two would help.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:04:44 +0000

I can leave a mail here: cbn11.17 at 163 dot com