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Management cracking down on smoking litterbugs

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Originally posted by: Canun

First off, good for the company. Cig smokers should clean up after themselves. I also agree with mandatory smoking areas, but distance requirements are sometimes near impossible to implement. In Utah, you have to be 25ft away from any entrance into a building. This law wouldn't even let the smokers use the designated smoking areas because it was 23ft from a door.

Just FYI, the research behind the second hand smoke risk used subjects that worked in heavy smoking environments for over a decade, and those who lived in heavy smoking households. These are people that were subject to continuous and heavy amounts of smoke for more than 8hrs a day.

Just pointing this out, because catching a whiff of cig. smoke is not going to harm you. Otherwise they would have to ban cars for the same reason. Or start banning people because you don't like their perfume or cologne.
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It triggers an asthma attack for me if I breathe it in for long enough. When someone smoking a cigarette decides to come stand next to me when I'm outside, i'm forced to move or else to get sick. Cigarette smoke is poison plain and simple. It's true that if effects me more strongly than others, but it's affecting everyone to a degree. It's irresponsible to make others walk through a cloud of this poison every time they enter and leave the building.
 
my best friend used to put his butts out in my driveway until i yelled at him. now he flips them in the back of someone's pickup across the street. lol
 
Originally posted by: yowolabi
It triggers an asthma attack for me if I breathe it in for long enough. When someone smoking a cigarette decides to come stand next to me when I'm outside, i'm forced to move or else to get sick. Cigarette smoke is poison plain and simple. It's true that if effects me more strongly than others, but it's affecting everyone to a degree. It's irresponsible to make others walk through a cloud of this poison every time they enter and leave the building.
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I have the same problem, maybe even worse. I get a good whiff and it's like somebody is standing on my chest and I can't draw a breath. Addicts here on this board have told me without ever meeting me that this is all in my head. Like they know better than me and my doctor. You won't win this one - smokers will stand by their addiction with claims about freedom, and when you bring up the my-right-to-swing-my-arm-in-the-air-ends-at-your-face analysis, their denial escalates to cover your very symptoms.

And that's why we need laws and actions like the above management.
 
I went to Quiznos the other day, and in order to get there I had to walk in front of Radio Shack and some other stores. They had just laid down new mulch, and as we walked by you could almost make out a defined line on each end of the Radio Shack where the cigarette butts started and stopped. None of the other stores had cigarette butts in the mulch, and the Radio Shack had hundreds of them. I'd fire my employees for that crap.
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
Originally posted by: yowolabi
It triggers an asthma attack for me if I breathe it in for long enough. When someone smoking a cigarette decides to come stand next to me when I'm outside, i'm forced to move or else to get sick. Cigarette smoke is poison plain and simple. It's true that if effects me more strongly than others, but it's affecting everyone to a degree. It's irresponsible to make others walk through a cloud of this poison every time they enter and leave the building.
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I have the same problem, maybe even worse. I get a good whiff and it's like somebody is standing on my chest and I can't draw a breath. Addicts here on this board have told me without ever meeting me that this is all in my head. Like they know better than me and my doctor. You won't win this one - smokers will stand by their addiction with claims about freedom, and when you bring up the my-right-to-swing-my-arm-in-the-air-ends-at-your-face analysis, their denial escalates to cover your very symptoms.

And that's why we need laws and actions like the above management.
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:thumbsup: same here

The no smoking policy in my factory is abused by both workers and management to no end. There are times when I feel like turning into biggest ahole, calling my committee man, health and safety, and getting HR involved.

These guys have to smoke while taking a shower.





 
Originally posted by: mugs
I went to Quiznos the other day, and in order to get there I had to walk in front of Radio Shack and some other stores. They had just laid down new mulch, and as we walked by you could almost make out a defined line on each end of the Radio Shack where the cigarette butts started and stopped. None of the other stores had cigarette butts in the mulch, and the Radio Shack had hundreds of them. I'd fire my employees for that crap.
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You would think business owners would be concerned about what customers think. The Circle K stores in my area are all managed by a regional office. Their policy is for their employees to smoke right outside the front door, so that I can't possibly get inside without 'sharing' a bunch. I brought this up to the regional manager who pretty much said he didn't care.
 
And yet we all drive cars that pollute the air and ground with gasoline leeching into the ground from failing tanks.

Be nice if we could take that tax money that you all benefit from and hire people to clean up these butts and build some noce smoking shelters for us.

Thats the ticket, dedicate all the tax revenue from cigareetes and use it soley for clean-up, shelters with big screens and we can fund our own health care so you guys will STFU for once. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: bctbct
And yet we all drive cars that pollute the air and ground with gasoline leeching into the ground from failing tanks.

Be nice if we could take that tax money that you all benefit from and hire people to clean up these butts and build some noce smoking shelters for us.

Thats the ticket, dedicate all the tax revenue from cigareetes and use it soley for clean-up, shelters with big screens and we can fund our own health care so you guys will STFU for once. 🙂
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What's so hard about not littering? Especially when the ash trays are right next to you?

I'm normally all about smokers' rights, but it's moronic that you're using tax revenue as a justification for littering.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: bctbct
And yet we all drive cars that pollute the air and ground with gasoline leeching into the ground from failing tanks.

Be nice if we could take that tax money that you all benefit from and hire people to clean up these butts and build some noce smoking shelters for us.

Thats the ticket, dedicate all the tax revenue from cigareetes and use it soley for clean-up, shelters with big screens and we can fund our own health care so you guys will STFU for once. 🙂
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What's so hard about not littering? Especially when the ash trays are right next to you?

I'm normally all about smokers' rights, but it's moronic that you're using tax revenue as a justification for littering.
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Many places do not have butt cans, we have 1 at work but they put it 30ft from the door and across the grass.

I agree that the butts do look like ****** but damn people just rant and rave about stuff that overall is so petty.
 
Originally posted by: bctbct
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: bctbct
And yet we all drive cars that pollute the air and ground with gasoline leeching into the ground from failing tanks.

Be nice if we could take that tax money that you all benefit from and hire people to clean up these butts and build some noce smoking shelters for us.

Thats the ticket, dedicate all the tax revenue from cigareetes and use it soley for clean-up, shelters with big screens and we can fund our own health care so you guys will STFU for once. 🙂
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What's so hard about not littering? Especially when the ash trays are right next to you?

I'm normally all about smokers' rights, but it's moronic that you're using tax revenue as a justification for littering.
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Many places do not have butt cans, we have 1 at work but they put it 30ft from the door and across the grass.

I agree that the butts do look like ****** but damn people just rant and rave about stuff that overall is so petty.
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Well I would complain to management, unless they have a policy that you need to be 30 feet from an entrance to smoke.

The fact is, the OP's company has the butt buckets right next to where people smoke, and they still continue to litter the ground.

If it's so petty, the smokers really shouldn't be doing it in the first place, and should have the common courtesy to stop.
 
i smoke and i always put it in an ashtray unless i'm on the road...but i never smoke in my car so its not a big deal
 
Originally posted by: bctbct
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: bctbct
And yet we all drive cars that pollute the air and ground with gasoline leeching into the ground from failing tanks.

Be nice if we could take that tax money that you all benefit from and hire people to clean up these butts and build some noce smoking shelters for us.

Thats the ticket, dedicate all the tax revenue from cigareetes and use it soley for clean-up, shelters with big screens and we can fund our own health care so you guys will STFU for once. 🙂
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What's so hard about not littering? Especially when the ash trays are right next to you?

I'm normally all about smokers' rights, but it's moronic that you're using tax revenue as a justification for littering.
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Many places do not have butt cans, we have 1 at work but they put it 30ft from the door and across the grass.

I agree that the butts do look like ****** but damn people just rant and rave about stuff that overall is so petty.
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If I didn't know better, I'd think they're trying to get people to smoke away from the door :Q
 
Originally posted by: mugs


Many places do not have butt cans, we have 1 at work but they put it 30ft from the door and across the grass.

I agree that the butts do look like ****** but damn people just rant and rave about stuff that overall is so petty.
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If I didn't know better, I'd think they're trying to get people to smoke away from the door :Q[/quote]


Not likely since we have a break room and shop that we are allowed to smoke in. This is also an employee entrance that is not used by the public.

Its because they have a picinic table set up on a patio and the custodian thought it would be nice to have a potted plant on one corner and the butt can on the other.

These cans are not always placed for the convience of use. Many places have those butt cans on top of the trash can shaped like a saucer and the butts blow out.
 
:thumbsup: to the management. That's one of the things that I've always found to be disgusting - cigarette butts littering an area.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: AUMM
great idea, should be everywhere...
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... but anytime gun control is mentioned all hell breaks loose.
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I had no idea that littering and gun control were so similar! :Q
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It's not. What I meant was smoking in general.... so a bit OT in this thread.

When smoking is banned in certain places everyone is cheering but when gun control is brought up it's the opposite.

Carry on.... nothing to see here.
 
I'll usually tailgate a damn moron that throws out his butts. Maybe I'll pass by them and get in front of them and spit some tobacco juice on their windshield next time.
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
Originally posted by: yowolabi
It triggers an asthma attack for me if I breathe it in for long enough. When someone smoking a cigarette decides to come stand next to me when I'm outside, i'm forced to move or else to get sick. Cigarette smoke is poison plain and simple. It's true that if effects me more strongly than others, but it's affecting everyone to a degree. It's irresponsible to make others walk through a cloud of this poison every time they enter and leave the building.
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I have the same problem, maybe even worse. I get a good whiff and it's like somebody is standing on my chest and I can't draw a breath. Addicts here on this board have told me without ever meeting me that this is all in my head. Like they know better than me and my doctor. You won't win this one - smokers will stand by their addiction with claims about freedom, and when you bring up the my-right-to-swing-my-arm-in-the-air-ends-at-your-face analysis, their denial escalates to cover your very symptoms.

And that's why we need laws and actions like the above management.
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now what about people with peanut allergies, should their be laws banning peanuts in public?
 
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