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Those of you who smoke cigarettes: do you throw cigarette butts anywhere and everywhere? I’m willing to bet that very few smokers will

admit to doing it, yet someone must be, because there are thousands of them strewn about and littering every outdoor venue possible. I’m sure the first “defense” to this action it the claim that a lit cigarette butt is a potential fire hazard that must be discarded immediately, and the best place to do it is on the ground. Of course, I don’t buy that for a second. 

Posted - January 24, 2020
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  • 44652
    I do not due that. I 'field strip' them and put the filter in my pocket or other container that may be available.
      January 24, 2020 12:11 PM MST
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  • 53526

    (due do)

    I have the sneaking suspicion that you posted like that intentionally to get my goat. 
      January 24, 2020 12:59 PM MST
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  • 44652
    No, I didn't. Sometimes my mind wanders when I type.
      January 24, 2020 2:37 PM MST
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  • 53526

    I can never be too sure with you. 



    ~
      January 24, 2020 3:11 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I usually aim my butt to the gutter or if I am in a 'clean place' I dowse the burning ember and put the butt into my back pocket. Sometimes I offer my partially smoked cigarette to a panhandler and let him worry about disposing the butt.
      January 24, 2020 2:31 PM MST
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  • 53526

     (dowse douse)
      January 24, 2020 3:12 PM MST
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  • 14795
    I'm smoking as you well know by now, and keep my butt safe and sound till I get home.:)
      January 24, 2020 3:35 PM MST
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  • 17620
    I can't remember the last time I saw a cigarette butt anywhere at all other than in my neighbor's back porch ashtray...she is an infrequent smoker.  We have ashtrays at the pool but they are always empty.   This post was edited by Thriftymaid at January 24, 2020 6:08 PM MST
      January 24, 2020 5:36 PM MST
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  • 14795
    If there was no one at the pool...it then stands to reason that the ash trays would be empty I think ...
    We  have pubs with empty ash trays to until its opening time ...  :( 
      January 24, 2020 6:12 PM MST
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  • 17620
    I didn't say no one was at the pool.  This post was edited by Thriftymaid at January 24, 2020 11:00 PM MST
      January 24, 2020 10:59 PM MST
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  • 2706
    When I smoked I did toss the butts on the ground without any thought or care about the nasty habit. And that 4 pack a day habit littered a lot of landscape. Something I'm not proud of.
      January 25, 2020 9:13 AM MST
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