Why do smokers......

[Todd&Copper]

I have NEVER seen anyone leave a dirty diaper in the parking lot. Ever.

I just saw one in the Park & Ride lot in Annapolis, MD last week. Maybe I should have taken a photo for you?

 

[momof3littlelilos]

I have NEVER seen anyone leave a dirty diaper in the parking lot. Ever.

Me neither..but I see cigarette butts on the ground everywhere on a daily basis.
I think the worst is during the dry season when people toss them out of car windows. Then it's not just gross, it's a fire hazard.

ETA: But I suppose if I ever see a flaming poop filled disposable diaper sailing from a car window, it would trump every discarded cigarette butt I've ever seen.

 

[lovetomow]

You can compare other types of litter to cig butts all you want. I can walk out to the road in front of my office right now and pickup 50 cigarette butts and not one diaper, chip bag or piece of paper in sight. It's like compaing apples to oranges. Littering (sorry smokers thats what it is) is 1000% worse with butts vs other types of litter.

 

[JR6ooo4]

For the same reason people leave dirty diapers in the parking lot.

or in the stands at Indianna Jones show, after talking through the whole show and changing the diaper right behind us...

No class

Mikeeee

 

[Chipmunk89]

Why do the kids walking home from school throw their chip bags on the ground when walking home from school?

Why does the man going to work throw his coffee cup in the gutter when getting on the bus?

Why does the lady walking her dog throw the bag of poop into the sewer?

Why does the teenager walking the dog leave the poop on the sidewalk or the neighbor's lawn.

Why did the man in walking this morning spit on the sidewalk?

Why did the little boy walking spit his gum onto the sidewalk?

Seriously, many people of all different ages, sexes and whaterver litter in different ways. I'm not saying it's right but as a smoker (who does not throw butts BTW) I need to know why is it that the cigarette butts bother people so much but nothing else seems too?

Because they're kids, and they need reminding to do the right thing.

Because he is lazy.

Because she is lazy.

Because they are teenagers. Enough said.

Because he was inconsiderate.

Because he was a child, and doesn't realize that someone could step in it.

Cigarette butts bother me because (for the most part) ADULTS are responsible for them being on the ground. Adults smoke, adults flick 'em out the window, and adults put them out on the sidewalks. They're just gross to me. When we do beach clean up or roadside trash pick up, I hate picking up butts. Yes, I wear gloves, but I don't want to pick up trash that someone had in their mouth. Same for soda bottles. YUK!

 

[declansdad]

Lack of ashtrays. And same thing for the car. Neither of our cars have ashtrays.

I'm sorry but that is a weak excuse. It is not that difficult to put an ashtray in your car.

 

[PatsMom]

I don't see all that many cigarette butts laying around and when I smoked I didn't toss mine. I see lots of other trash. I walk for exercise and often go up the road past my house into the national forest. The trash left behind is incredible. I see cigarette butts - although not that many. What kills me is the beer cans, food wrappers, and if I looked hard I could probably count a lot of crappy diapers! Especially near the spots by the river where people stop to swim. Smokers who drop their butts are no worse (or no better) than those who leave any other trash lying around.

 

[declansdad]

Seriously, many people of all different ages, sexes and whaterver litter in different ways. I'm not saying it's right but as a smoker (who does not throw butts BTW) I need to know why is it that the cigarette butts bother people so much but nothing else seems too?

I'm guessing because you usually find cigarette butts in bunches.

 

[DizBelle]

Why do the kids walking home from school throw their chip bags on the ground when walking home from school?

Why does the man going to work throw his coffee cup in the gutter when getting on the bus?

Why does the lady walking her dog throw the bag of poop into the sewer?

Why does the teenager walking the dog leave the poop on the sidewalk or the neighbor's lawn.

Why did the man in walking this morning spit on the sidewalk?

Why did the little boy walking spit his gum onto the sidewalk?

Seriously, many people of all different ages, sexes and whaterver litter in different ways. I'm not saying it's right but as a smoker (who does not throw butts BTW) I need to know why is it that the cigarette butts bother people so much but nothing else seems too?

Because they are soooooooooo much more prevalent than the other types of litter you mentioned. On my walk from the parking garage to my building, the only litter I encountered was cigarette butts - and so many of them. And there is at least one trash can between the garage and the building in which these butts could have been put. Why is it so hard to carry the butt with you until you reach the trash can that you are 100% guaranteed to pass on your way into the building? And if you're going to your car, take it with you and throw it away in a trash can when you encounter one. Why does the rest of the world have to deal with your litter?

All of this applies to any type of litter.....

 

[storzo]

I guess I live in a dirty community because I find lots more trash on the streets, sidewalks, and gutters than I do cigarette butts. Or maybe we just have considerate smokers here?

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

It makes me extremely angry to see people throw them out their car windows when we are a literal timberbox out here right now.

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

Here is my take:

When I first started smoking I used to throw my butts out the window. Kind of a mindless sort of thing. Young dumb and didnt think about "liter".

Met friends from Hawaii and they were talking about butts litering up their island and destroying the natural beauty. So I stopped thrown butts out.

I then quit smoking and although I understand sort of; I hate all things about smoking. So now I am a hypocrit I guess because that used to be me and now I can not stand it.

I think it is probably a mindless thing and they dont really think about it. Why think about litering the earth when you are litering your body.
Just sayin.

 

[Disney Ella]

I don't understand why not only do non-smokers have to breathe in the smoke, but we have to pick up the smoker's trash too. I see butts on the ground every day and watch them fly out of car windows daily. I have seen a diaper left out a few times, but not nearly as often as the butts on the ground. One of the worst things is going to the beach and not being able to find a spot free of butts. They're all through the sand. And for the person who asked why butts are worse than empty chip bags - the butts smell and while there may be one chip bag on the ground, there are usually multiple butts.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Why do smokers (the ones that do this) think it's ok to toss their cigarette butts wherever they happen to be when they are done with the cigarette? I just walked from my car in the parking garage to my building and there are dozens upon dozens of cigarette butts all over the ground.

We have a single smoking area at the building. Yet, there are cigarette butts everywhere.

Because they're lazy and they don't care. Same reason people throw other garbage out the window or toxics down the storm drains. In many cities, the storm drains are not connected to the sewer system. In those cases, people are simply polluting their local watershed.

 

[DevilDuckie]

Because they don't mind being filthy. Hence their willingness to reek like that.

 

[aprilgail2]

Because they don't mind being filthy. Hence their willingness to reek like that.

I cant stand when I am driving and hey flick them right out the window not giving a crap who is driving next to or behind them or the fact that they are littering all over the place! Going to the beach and having your kid dig in the sand only to dig up nasty cigerette butts from some pig of a smoker that was there and just left their butts on the beach- what pigs!!
The not having an ashtray in the car is one of the poorest, laziest excuses I have ever heard- you KNOW you smoke, you KNOW you smoke in the car- bring a coffee mug or something to put them out in and keep until you get to a garbage can

 

[wdw4us2]

I've never understood this. If someone wants to smoke, that's their choice - I don't have a problem with that. However, when your behavior threatens the property and lives of others, I do.

We're in severe drought conditions in Florida right now. You wouldn't believe how many times a day I see people tossing cigarette butts out the window of their car! They're doing this while the haze of smoke is still upon our area from wildfire burning in other parts of the state.

To those who say they don't see this litter, look out your car window the next time you're at a major lighted intersection. Look toward the center curb and I guarantee you'll see hundreds of butts. I first saw this when we were doing a traffic jam collection for Muscular Dystrophy over Labor Day weekend a few years ago. If I could have had a dollar for every butt on the ground, we would have collected hundreds of dollars!

 

[darlak]

I havent seen any ashtrays to buy anywhere. Seriously the next time you are out shopping browse for one. Maybe amazon sells them, I never thought to look there but there are none in any of the stores locally, nor is there a place in the center consoles where it would not fall over.

I have several. I have one that lights up when you flip open the lid, but my favorites are the ones that have the top with the circular hole in the center. You drop your cigarette in and it extinguishes by itself. All of mine fit in one of the cup holders. Try doing a Google search for automobile ashtrays.

 

[Amy&Dan]

My house is in a neighborhood that has those community mailboxes. One for about a half block worth of houses. As luck would have it, the mailbox for my house is right at the edge of my front yard. I cannot tell you how many times (hundreds) I have seen people pull up on their way home from work, go to the mailbox and then toss their lit cigarette in my yard. I guess they are about home and don't want to dispose of the cigarettes in thier own home/yard. It just drives me nuts and the fact I live in a state with a drought problem (a field behind my house caught on fire in November and almsot burned down a few houses, cause of that was cigarette butt).

I had a friend who used an Altoid container to store his butts in. He would be over and go out to my yard to smoke. I asked him what he did with his butts, I had never seen them and wondered! He showed me his Altoid container. I thought that was very nice.

I saw ashtrays just the other day in Wal Mart.

 

[chisnpeke]

I'm sorry but that is a weak excuse. It is not that difficult to put an ashtray in your car.

I agree. Bad excuse.