[Closed] When did it become acceptable to leave your rubbish behind?

Smokers do my head in. I'm close to tarring all of them with the same brush.
In no way is it acceptable to drop your finished cigarette butt anywhere other than the bin.
Sadly I see so many on the pavement still.

A friend of mine told me a little tale about taking some visiting Japanese to Man Utd.

At half time they fancied a ciggie. Afterwards one of them took out an empty matchbox and the tab ends went in it and back in his pocket. Simple isn't it?

I lived in a stair once where smoking must have been banned in the rented flats. So they smoked in the stairway and left the buts on the floor. I would sweep them up and post them back through the mail slot, I think the message got across as wee jars started appearing. Progress - the stair still honked.

I remember pictures in the papers of Thatcher picking up litter with .. I think Branson

Afterwards one of them took out an empty matchbox and the tab ends went in it and back in his pocket.

Standard practise in Oz (at least when I was there a decade ago) was for smokers to carry a little tin or an old 35mm film canister and put all your fag ends in that.

Of course it helps to enforce the message when a stray fag could burn down half the state. 😯

Of course it helps to enforce the message when a stray fag could burn down half the state.

Went to watch the Avengers yesterday. Big green advert on the screen before the film started saying "Please help us go Green by leaving your rubbish behind. We will recycle it" or words to that effect.

It was a rolling advert, so check for it next time.

Mystery solved.

Felt weird leaving it behind.