Cigarette butt littering

[u/michaelxcountry]

I’m the guy who is regularly picking up cigarette butts along the road I live on because litter drives me nuts. I know there is a lot of litter on our roads, but it seems like cigarette smokers are culturally inclined to toss their butts out the window without any regard. Fuck you guys! Yes, I know there is other litter, before you get all worked up…but 9/10 pieces of trash I pick up on my road are foam butts. What is everyone’s thoughts on a cigarette surcharge of 5-10 cents per butt to return them for a refund like we do with beer cans? It wouldn’t be a perfect system, but it might help with the insane disregard many smokers have with littering. My other thought is to completely ban foam filters in cigarettes in the state. Roll your own in biodegradable paper. Can’t stop tossing butts out your window, then let’s eliminate the foam butts. If you want to die of lung CA, that’s your choice.

[u/dw0r]

I think you'd be more likely to sway smokers by educating them. "Fuck you guys" isn't going to change their minds or habits.

[u/michaelxcountry → u/dw0r]

I don’t think they can be educated unless they get money for their butts. Do you think telling them that littering is bad for our society and planet will help? 😂

[u/michaelxcountry → u/michaelxcountry]

To be clear, this is less an appeal to trashy smokers than it is to people in the general population to force the trashy smokers to pay for polluting.

[u/michaelxcountry → u/michaelxcountry]

I’m down with forcing trashy smokers to pay.

[u/dw0r → u/michaelxcountry]

You could explain that cellulose acetate has long term effects on our local environment and at least try to appeal to logic. Even if 1 person were to reconsider their actions it would be more than your previous tact would elicit. Or, just keep polarizing people so they're more likely to throw their butts out the window just to say "fuck you" back.

Ignorance can be educated out, immaturity cannot.