[workinman]

Originally Posted by Nick

I think the guilt and shame associated with ruining your health and polluting the world with smoke and butts keep the addicted coming back for more.

Having said that, butts are disgusting and so is smoking.

I'm so glad I have left that filthy habit behind and not sure why I ever did it. Oh wait a second... I was addicted.

i agree nick, and good job quiting, i watched many people try and fail over the years... good job!

[TheQueen31]

Yes, there is definitely the addiction problem. But what makes us start smoking in the first place? I think it’s the same wilful blindness I have referred to before … we don’t want to know the truth about them, and we won’t allow ourselves to be taught. This is everywhere … people don’t want to know the truth about how their habits and choices affect the world…it’s too inconvenient (to borrow the line).

[Aalaia]

The only solution is to reduce smoking. Other than that putting out ash trays and such so people have a place to put them. When I was a child these used to be everywhere. Since the ban on smoking there has been decrease ofcourse. I'm glad. I hated that stuff.

[TheQueen31]

I'm thrilled about the various bans on smoking. I really don't understand the hows and whys behind inhaling those kind of pollutants, much less insisting you should be able to do it everywhere and throw your garbage about - other humans and the earth be darned.

[Aalaia]

Originally Posted by TheQueen31

I'm thrilled about the various bans on smoking. I really don't understand the hows and whys behind inhaling those kind of pollutants, much less insisting you should be able to do it everywhere and throw your garbage about - other humans and the earth be darned.

It is amazing that anyone could ever inhale that stuff into their lungs. i am sure they hate it the first time, but they are so dtermined that they continue until they are comfortable and even hooked. Yuck! Big Yuck.

[Shinji246]

god i hate when i'm going down the road and someone flicks out their butt in front of me...i always rev up and get right up on their ass for a good few miles...

[goldberry]

I hate cigarette butts. When I was a kid, a younger kid I knew picked one up and was chewing on it-- nasty! Perhaps just having more trash recepticles handy would reduce the problem. Or is that a fire hazard?

[3plus3]

My boyfriend is terrible about cigarette butts in our yard!! He will just fling them out on the ground. Drives me nuts.

[debrajean]

Originally Posted by Horlequism

Well, when things are banned, people do it more in defiance right? So thusly, people smoke more in defiance in bars or in public places and then shoot their butts away. I remember here when the government put a ban on smoking in public places and bars, a lot of people in bars just decided to do it anyway and people smoked more in public places and I tended to see more butts.

Maine and many other states in the U.S. have already banned smoking in public places. For me, it's the best law that's ever been passed. I found it unsettling to go into a restaurant and have an open floor plan divided into smoking and non-smoking with little signs. What the hell is that going to do? What..the smoke from the other side of the room was going to stop drifting around the room when it hit the non-smoking section? And it's nice to go into a bar and actually 'see' who you're talking to, rather than trying to see them through a haze of cigarette smoke.
JMHO

[Canadian]

I hate seeing them scattered but believe it or not I do see people picking them up. I guess they smoke them or roll the left over tobacco into cigs.