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[Closed] smokers - do any of you/ them throw your/ their fag ends in the bin?

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are there any smokers who dispose of their fag ends properly?
funny how fags are casually thrown on the floor by people who would otherwise not throw litter.
what's different about fag ends?
are they biodegradable?


 
Posted : 19/01/2012 10:49 pm
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They're invisible, just like the stuff one chucks out of the car window.


 
Posted : 19/01/2012 10:55 pm
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it's a culture thing. until the smoking ban ashtrays / bins were pretty much limited to public bins.

at least now most buildings have them on the entrances. bin's are much more common on the continent & appear to be used more too.


 
Posted : 19/01/2012 11:12 pm
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I guess there may be some, but you only notice the ones who just chuck them on the floor without a second glance. Does my Swede in, that. Pollute everyone else's atmosphere and then litter the place. Do they not remember Kings Cross?


 
Posted : 19/01/2012 11:18 pm
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What would you have us do - stick the filthy, stinking, carcinogenic little critters in our pockets until we find somewhere suitable to dispose of them?

Yes, I flick 'em I'm afraid 😳

Not ideal I know, but I'm a C U Next Tuesday in most walks of life, so what the hell did you expect?

Hypocritically, I get annoyed at neds dropping McD wrappers, even if it's in McD's car park.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:00 am
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Posted : 20/01/2012 12:08 am
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Yes, I disposed it properly into the fag bin and if there is not one nearby I would keep the fag end in my pocket until I find one.

I am in the process of giving up so there you go ...


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:11 am
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Slightly tongue in cheek post above aside - I usually smoke where there is an ashtray/fag bin etc.

Exceptions will be when in the car and it's on a motorway/dual carriageway and it really doesn't matter - ok, occassionally minor roads which isn't the best admittedly. Other than that, on site which will be cleaned/covered up anyway. I do try not to just flick them on pavements in towns/villages etc.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:16 am
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it's because people think ,wrongly, that they are only cotton wool and paper when in reality they're a synthetic material that doesn't break down as quickly as people think they do.

It absolutely utterly annoys the shit out of me beyond reproach that people think they have the right to chuck them anywhere they feel fit.


 
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Slightly tongue in cheek post above aside - I usually smoke where there is an ashtray/fag bin etc.

Exceptions will be when in the car and it's on a motorway/dual carriageway and it really doesn't matter - ok, occassionally minor roads which isn't the best admittedly.

so you do think its accepatble to chuck them out of your car window. Nice. Your car got no ashtray? Or are yo too selfish and lazy to use it?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:24 am
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Exceptions will be when in the car and it's on a motorway/dual carriageway and it really doesn't matter - ok, occassionally minor roads which isn't the best admittedly. Other than that, on site which will be cleaned/covered up anyway. I do try not to just flick them on pavements in towns/villages etc.

isn't that what car ashtrays are for? get a grip man, it's littering [Full Stop]


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:27 am
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Don't you realise how badly it will affect the resale value of my 4x4 if it's had fag butts in the ashtray?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:42 am
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Responsibility.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 7:13 am
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Smokers are not generally well known for their responsibility.
They don't care Maaaaaan


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 8:15 am
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i always threw mine in the bin. well maybe not always but certainly in the last 5 years. it's my litter, i'll deal with it thank you.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 8:41 am
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Smokers are not generally well known for their responsibility.

I think you'll find our easing of the forthcoming pensions crisis is not only responsible, but highly considerate. To be honest, I'm constantly disappointed we don't receive a bit more gratitude. A few fag butts is a small price to pay to keep you lot in Werthers Originals


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 8:47 am
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The only proper way to dispose of a fag end is in the eye of your enemy.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 8:47 am
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Put them in bins, carry them until I find a bin. Don't smoke in cars.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 8:49 am
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What would you have us do - stick the filthy, stinking, carcinogenic little critters in our pockets until we find somewhere suitable to dispose of them?

You nmay have been tongue in cheek but loads of people sadly do think that way. There are solutions...

http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/Campaigns/pastcampaigns/cigarette/portableashtray/Default.aspx


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:04 am
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i give them to passing children, its up to them to suck hard enough to get it lit properly again or find their own matches.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:04 am
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Do they not remember Kings Cross?

Hmmmmmm just about. I also remember them banning smoking on public transport immediately afterwards, then banning it completely everywhere indoors. Did you miss that bit? Have you been living in a cave for the last decade?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:06 am
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What about roll up butts?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:15 am
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Is that a 'specialist' website?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:25 am
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or a page in the karma sutra i missed by accident?


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:39 am
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This is pretty nifty


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 9:41 am
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What about roll up butts?

Would've thought rollies without filters or unroached would breakdown pretty quickly. They're basically just paper mand cured leaves, not much synthetic to stick around in the ecosystem.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 10:11 am
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A part from all the carcinogens that are on them that hang around and get into the enviroment


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 11:28 am
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Would've thought rollies without filters or unroached would breakdown pretty quickly. They're basically just paper mand cured leaves, not much synthetic to stick around in the ecosystem.

It still looks messy. Dumping a load of hardcore in the local beauty spot doesn't really do any damage to the ecosytem, but it doesn't make it acceptable.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 11:29 am
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A part from all the carcinogens that are on them that hang around and get into the enviroment

True, nicotine makes a particularly good pesticide too. Not really what you want in your local watercourse.

It still looks messy. Dumping a load of hardcore in the local beauty spot doesn't really do any damage to the ecosytem, but it doesn't make it acceptable.

Yep, this is one of my bug bears with people throwing away banana skins/apple cores etc... in the countryside and saying " well, it's biodegradable". It still attracts vermin and encourages others to do the same thing though.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 11:54 am
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Anyone who throws any rubbish out the car should be shot!!!

On numerous occasions at traffic lights I have got out my car and picked up a fag butt just flick out the window by the driver infront of me. I then re-presented it them and asked politely that it is disposed of correctly.

In the majority of times they are happy to take it and deal with, a few people have been surprised that someone is knocking ion the car window and not suprisingly I have been told where to go several times.

Am yet to be fully confronted as they all know they are in the wrong. It also helps being 6ft 2 and 19 stone with a skinhead, kind of puts the tossers off getting our the car and beating me to death.

There is no need for it at all.


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:09 pm
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The filthy runts who throw cigarette butts on the street are probably the same filthy runts who drop litter in general ... litter is litter, regardless of whether it'll biodegrade ... it's lazy and anti-social


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:11 pm
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^ This ^


 
Posted : 20/01/2012 12:38 pm