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ReplyDeleteI like this one as smokers are people that I don't really like.
ReplyDeleteWalking on a sidewalk, I often cross by a smoker and, YOK, I go through is smoke and worse if I see him throw is cigaret butch on the ground.
Years ago, I was in my car waiting on a red light and there was the fancy expensive sport car in front of me. Then, the «lady» opened her car door to «clean» her ashtray directly in the street beside her car.
She maybe was looking like a «fashion Barbie» but for me, she was as filthy as a b big pig.
Again, too many selfish people will never care for the health of other people or the planet.
Agreed. That's nasty. I hate it when I see someone toss a butt out a car window, too. Even more so with this drought.
ReplyDeleteJiEL & Pat - Agreed: Smokers are pigs - and I used to be one until 1998.
ReplyDeleteAs a smoker - and therefore a pig ;-) - I always hated to see cigarette butts left out anywhere else than an ashtray. The slogan on the boxes is as simple as it is true.
ReplyDeleteSome facts gathered elsewhere:
4,300 billion cigarette butts are thrown on the ground each year around the world.
For the whole of France, the weight of cigarette butts thrown or crushed on the ground represents nearly 25,000 tons per year.
On beaches and shorelines, cigarette filters represent 40 percent of the waste collected during clean-up operations.
Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate, a synthetic plastic fiber, and therefore behave like plastic waste, i.e., they are not biodegradable and degrade by alteration and dispersion of their material into smaller and smaller plastic particles.
The degradation time of a cigarette butt is up to 12 years.
I hadn't that knowledge when I switched from filter cigarettes to rolling tobacco without filter 30 years ago, but I am really relieved I did now that I am aware. Anyone may be free to alter their health by smoking, but taking care of our planet remains each responsibility.
GAY-men! Yes! Every time I see one of those bastards use the earth to put out their ciggie, or worse, just toss a lit one? I want to go up to them and scream in their face.
ReplyDeleteLaurent - Those are very interesting facts. Too bad manufacturers can't make a biodegradable filter.
ReplyDeleteBiodegradable filters exist. They are mostly available for rolling tobacco and some filter cigarettes. But they reduce the degradation time by a 6x factor. Nice but not good enough in my opinion. And the major downside being that ANY cigarette butt will contain an average of 400 chemicals(*), some of which are extremely nefarious to environment, starting with living species such as fishes and shellfishes. To the point that some aware people are lobbying to alert governments that these discarded cigarettes butts should be classified as toxic discharges to the environment. Unfortunately we know how these alerts are still too often taken at a snail pace…
ReplyDelete(*): it seems that, decades after the public scandal from the trial of all major tobacco companies, they are still free to add to their raw material an huge amount of additives. So it seems that yes they lost the trial; but no they did nos lose anything in the process. To our bad.
P.S.: I did it again, did I not? LoL! But this on's on you, Rick: why did you have to post that picture which sent me on that path?
Laurent - I'm glad you took that path. It learned me some important things. :-)
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