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You ARE attacking smokers.
The estimates for cigarette butts to break down are from 3 months to 10-15 years with the "consensus" being 10 to 15 years.
Show me just one example of a fish kill caused by a cigarette butt. the filter may break down first by photo-degradation and then bio-degradation but the "chemicals" are all organic. When a house burns down - is the soil "toxic". Does rain water flow through the site, enter waterways and kill fish?
In the whole history of the world, what other item of litter is "counted" individually to make it the number 1 ecological disaster.
Anti-smokers campaign to take ashtrays away from smokers (even in private cars) knowing that people would be forced to toss the butt. Then they use that circumstance to attack smokers even more.
Why are smoker required to pay special littering fines when other people toss things like plastic coke bottles that end up as small shards that kill birds and fish?????
Want to end the problem? Provide smokers with indoor locations were they can sit down with individual ashtrays!
anti-smokers created the problem and the governement can use the billions of dollars that smokers pay in taxes to solve the problem.
I will continue to toss my butt at will until I am treated with dignity.
originally posted by: TiredofControlFreaks
Are you saying that there would never be a wild fire if smokers didn't exist?
Next time I am going to throw a cigarette butt in the fire pit and I should have a blazing bon fire in 30 seconds flat!
If you don't want wild fires to be started by cigarette butts - how about putting ashtrays back in cars.
NO - just provide me with an ashtray
originally posted by: TiredofControlFreaks
Quite chidish.
originally posted by: TiredofControlFreaks
Answer my question:
It is childish to expect the whole world and every single place in that world to cater only to your tastes.
While discarded cigarette butts are often blamed for causing fires, Woods says research by the CSIRO in the 1960s, and more recently in Australia and the United States, suggests cigarettes only start fires under limited circumstances. "Whilst they cannot be totally discounted, it's not as common as many would think."
"Cigarette butts usually survive fires, and based on the research, the ability for the remnant burning section of the cigarette to come in contact with fuel, means it has to be physically land at a certain angle," says Woods. "Equally the weather parameters are very specific, for instance on a day when it's 20°C and 75 per cent humidity, means it's very unlikely that a discarded cigarette will cause a grass fire. The research doesn't support it."