Public Service Announcement

[gemfyre]

People, it's not smokERS that I hate, it's smokING. Unfortunately, if you are smoking or have been smoking you will stink, it hangs around a lot longer than you think, and is a lot more noticeable than you think. If you are currently puffing away that reek is carrying a lot further than you think (often when I ping people for throwing their butts out of their cars, I'm first tipped off to the fact they HAVE a ciggy because I can smell the damn thing). It's comprimising my health and comfort. I don't like that. No, I HATE that, I DETEST that. And guess what - you CAN help it! Dont' give me some sob story about being addicted, or some bullshit about smoker's rights.

And I know every smoker that reads my tirades about littering says, "Oh I don't do that. Maybe not, but a lot of people who smoke cigarettes MUST DO or else we wouldn't have millions of butts anywhere but bins and ashtrays where they should be (where unfortunately, they continue to smell bad), and I wouldn't be pinging at least one driver a week for ditching their butt onto the road.

Thank you for reading.

Comments

[samara-47.livejournal.com]

We get free mints at work for the smokers. I think it is a bit unfair that the non-smokers get less of break time while the smokers are off to the smoking area several times a day.
But the thing with the littering is it is kinda hard to find a place to put your cigarette, you could be out in a designated smoking area but if there is no ash tray you can't put it in the bin, so there is no-where else to put it then the ground?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

There are portable ashtrays for that.

Just because a smoker is disorganised, it doesn't give them the right to litter.

[samara-47.livejournal.com]

Portable ashtrays?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

http://www.buttsout.net/buttsout

Just one example out of many.