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.

Addiction or not, someone who doesn't put their trash where it belongs is disgusting scum.

Especially when that trash can start a fire.

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.

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.

Let me just add the following:

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.

Blame TV and movies too

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.

The first time a smoker would ask...

A reminder: the filters are basically plastic and will last forever.

Say what you want about the rest, it's filters which bother me the most.

I totally agree with you re: disposing of the end of the cigs. But when you're outside, do you have an issue with the ash aswell?

I love sending in dashcam videos of litterers, instant $400 fine lol

Technically nature made us and in time we made plastic, so technically nature made plastic... This is all just nature's fault! Kill it! 😬

All the smokers I know pocket their butts and toss them in the garbage later 🤷

I guess they still ash their cigs on the ground, but I don't really see ash as an issue. Maybe it is, but not to my knowledge

Did i just see this same meme on c/ich_iel or am i worse at german than i thought?

Smoke pipe. No ash, no butts