When cigarette smoking goes bad...

[NFS4]

DOH!

 

[vi edit]

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

B/C I think you can be fined if you throw coke cans and sh!t out your car, but cigarette butts are allowed???

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

That smokers throw their butts all over with nary a repercussion.

 

[JonnyStarks]

I like the rant emoticon

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

B/C I think you can be fined if you throw coke cans and sh!t out your car, but cigarette butts are allowed???

I'm positive if a cop is having a bad enough day and you are being a total ass about it, he can write you up for littering if you toss out cigarette butt out your window or on the ground.

In national parks it's a SERIOUS crime because of forest fire possibilities.

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

B/C I think you can be fined if you throw coke cans and sh!t out your car, but cigarette butts are allowed???

I'm positive if a cop is having a bad enough day and you are being a total ass about it, he can write you up for littering if you toss out cigarette butt out your window or on the ground.

In national parks it's a SERIOUS crime because of forest fire possibilities.

AND the fact that animals will sometimes eat the butts. :frown:

 

[IGBT]

..you see the things all over the place..with all that concentrated products of combustion in the used filter it's a wonder they're not considered hazardous waste..I think you guys ought to keep em in pooper scooper bags instead of tossing em around. You'd clean up after your dog..how bout yourself??:|

 

[amol]

yeah, i remember standing in a line to go into a store when the guy behind me starting smoking and puffing smoke into my and my two friends' faces . . . after asking him to stop (about 5 times), my friend just grabbed the cigarette and flicked it in the guys face . . . it also helps that my friend was about 6'4" and had a muscular build . . .

 

[TimMyMac]

Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
I like the rant emoticon

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I'm trying to understand what he means by that.

That smokers throw their butts all over with nary a repercussion.

 

[Shooters]

I just don't understand why littering is a crime except when it comes to smokers?

I don't understand why anti-smokers always make comments like this as if smokers think they're above the law when it comes to littering. It's true you see smokers flick their butts in the street usually without any consequences, but by the same token when was the last time you saw someone get cited for dropping their gum wrapper on the ground or tossing or Wendy's cup out of their car window? I'm not saying that makes it right, but non-smokers litter also. In my 25 years of being alive, I've never witnessed a person being fined for littering and I've seen people toss McDonald's bags full of their fast food trash out of their car.

And yes, tossing your cigarette butts of out the window is considered littering. A driving instructor was talking about it once and said that in Texas you could be fined up to $500 per piece of litter, so if a cop happens to catch you toss four butts out the window, then you could be fined up to $2000.

That being said, yes I'm a smoker, but I also always try to smoke in an area away from others when I'm in public and I look for a trash bin with an ashtray when I'm done.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Asswipes who are inconsiderate with their cigarettes. :|

*Waits for the inevitable "This is why tobacco should be illegal" post*

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Asswipes who are inconsiderate with their cigarettes. :|

*Waits for the inevitable "This is why tobacco should be illegal" post*

Making substances illegal doesn't help anything. We Americans should have learned that lesson back in the early 1900's (18th amendment, anyone?). However, since making stupid people illegal isn't terribly easy, perhaps [quoting an unknown source] all product warning labels should be removed, and the problem will take care of itself.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
I like the rant emoticon

 

[flawlssdistortn]

It's way too freakin cold to smoke, when it gets to be like 25 fahrenheit, thats where I draw the line. I always find it funny to see ppl freezing their asses off just to have a cig.