I was in a national park this past weekend. Beautiful scenery, gorgeous vistas, and the clearest air anyone could ask for.
Until some jerkass decided it was the perfect time to light up on the trail and then flick his cigarette into the woods. During fire season. Fucking asshole.
You don't realize how scarce trash cans there are until you start smoking.
That's why I became enlightened and switched to vaping. Now I can stop worrying about trashcans and just pour chemicals straight into the ground (and into my own pockets). 256 IQ move right there, so smart it overflows back to 0.
I just shoved them back in the pack after scrapping off the cherry if I needed to. It made it smell bad, but didn't really change the taste of the other smokes.
My boss literally wanted me to clean up cigarettes that him and several other workers threw on the ground constantly. Keep in mind there’s a cigarette trash can that’s right outside but no one cares to use it. Needless to say, I said fuck no and he didn’t argue lmao.
smoking is a beautifully executed tax on people via addiction. They created a product they cloak in the terminology of freedom and history, loaded with additional addictive chemicals and pushed it on our youth years ago. It's not bad enough to kill you or your ability to "produce" but the odds are good it will kill you before you can collect social security and will act as a daily tax as its marked as a luxury good. It's disgusting for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with the filter or the smell.
Maybe big tobacco as well. I feel bad for someone with an addiction. But choosing to throw waste on streets, sidewalks, or natural places is just rude and gross. Don't make your problem everyone's problem.
I can't really comprehend how it got so accepted. Why don't we punish this behaviour sufficiently if it is observed. Something like 12h of picking up filters would be quite fitting.
Many smokers never even think about it. It's the most normal thing in the world to them to just flick their cigarette anywhere. It's so engrained in their brains that it's okay to do so, which is the main part of the problem.
Just calling them out on it to make them aware can be a great start.
I do have a problem with the ash. But I’ll admit that it’s more a conscious one than the emotional antipathy I feel towards the buds. The buds you can at least pick up and discard. But once the ash is on the ground, the pollutants are irretrievably in the environment.
Is it that much of a pollutant? Again just ash, I'm always pretty conscientious to dispose of my filter tips, but never thought the ash was a problem.
Does it severely damage plant life? Is ashing in a concrete carpark more acceptable?
Not trying to get facetious here, genuinely trying to find out more.
I don't smoke cigarettes anymore but when I did I was fully aware that the tips were disasters in terms of how long they take to break down and their pollution impact, which is why I'd never throw them anywhere that wasn't an ashtray or a bin.
Now joints, I've felt free to when it's just a bit of paper and organic matter that is pretty much already obliterated just by smooshing it with my shoe.
I can't speak to quantities or rates, but I see a LOT of cigarette butts on the ground. This meme is right on target, in my experience.
My "favorite" was the time one threw their cigarette butt out the window of their car on a highway and it somehow ended up under the cowl of my windshield, so the smell was being sucked into my car by the ventilation system. And I couldn't easily get in there to remove it - I needed tools I didn't have on the road with me. At least it didn't start a fire.
I did when I smoked. I knew a few others who did as well (maybe only when I was around them idk). But yeah, the vast majority don't give a fuck.
I hate to say it, but these days it's kind of a thing mostly underprivileged people do, and these people tend to have bigger problems than being socially and environmentally conscious.
Suck in the cached bowl and pour the bong out when you're done smoking. You don't have to use the lighter the entire time when you're smoking the bowl. Leave it cherried, and when it goes out, suck it into the bong. You will have to clean your bong more often.
There can be a great many things that make it difficult to do so, but at the end of the day, each and every person is responsible for properly disposing of their trash.
What does what you said, have to do with what he said? Technically his statement was completely true. Your exclamation isn't really related to what he actually said.