Smokers...what do you do with your butt ends?

[VinegarTits]

I went for a lesiurely stroll in my lunch hour, i work in a fairly nice area, it is a business park, and i was astounded by the amount of butt ends just strewn everywhere you walk

I walked past a couple of women smoking, one disgarded her half smoked fag end onto the pavement, still lit, she was too bone idle to stump it our first

AIBU to think people who throw their lit fag ends in the street are as bad as dog owners who dont pick up their shit?

Why cant you stump them out and put them in the bin?

It is a bit minging, I agree. My DD2 made us all laugh when she was a 6m old baby on holiday on the beach. She was sitting quite happily messing about in the sand, turned round to us with a fag butt hanging out of her mouth. Quite disgusting but looked hilarious - she had a round face so looked like Winston Churchill

It's as if they don't count as litter.

Quite often flung out of cars too.

DD's pushchair footmuff has a burn in it from one of these flung-away bastards, so YANBU.

The council started fining people who dropped fag ends £50 in Manchester. I stopped doing it pretty sharpish and just got into the habit of putting the end in the bin. I have stopped smoking now though

Its horrible, we shoud just gather them up and post them through their post flap.
But sadly most of the smokers i know do the same, my mum sticks them down the draain outside her house, and if it blocks she will wonder why.

I put mine in the bin or, if there's no bin, I'll hold it in my hand until I find a bin. There's no excuse for chucking fag butts on the ground.

lindenlass that made me lol

Do some people think the world is their ashtry?

My mum keeps a little tin in her handbag - I think it used to have mints in it - anyway, if she's out and about, and stops for a cigarette, the butt goes in there, for proper disposal later. Hardly too difficult for most people, I'd have thought.

Is it just MNers and their nearest and dearest who are so considerate with their butt end then?

Come on who will admit to throwing them on the ground and not really seeing it as litter?

i fling them out the car window. makes me larf when they hit the car behind.

do you award yourself double points if it rebounds then hits some poor fucker in the eye?

Litter bug, thats what you are

that was a joke btw. don't really.

Damn, i was up for a fight then

So the consensus is, all MNers dispose of butt ends in the correct manner

God your all boring

I didn't want to start a thread on this, but this morning on the way to taking DS1 to school, I saw 2 women taking 9 children to school, and they (the women) were smoking away...

I could have spat chips....

This was after nearly being smashed into by some idiot (woman-Merc) driver who clearly didn't know how to give way to me! And she got cross at me!!!!

Not happy Jan!

PMSL at Vinegartits!
I always get glared at by old ladies when i drop them on the floor to put them out even though i pick them up once they're out and throw them in the bin. Don't smoke in public now. Feel all nervous and self-concious. Hide away in the back garden at home!

I throw mine on the floor only because the council won't let us have a fag bin attached to the wall also if you put it in a normal litter bin there is chance of a fire and we did have a jar on the wall at work but the teens from the school kept smashing it on the floor.

What about fat people you see eating in McDonalds ?

Everyone in todays society feel smokers are good game to be reduced as pieces of crap ?

It could go both ways !

I'm only joking BTW

LOL at fat people and macdonalds you know what kills it is when you see them order a large meal with a diet coke Pointless

nobodys eva died of smoking statistics can prove that everyone who died last year drank out of wet glasses

You should stump them out and put it in your pocket then

Better that you go up in flames, than some poor child who might pick it up

As long as people dispose of their empty macdonlds wrappers appropriately, i have no problem with them, fat or not.

lol @ diet coke ordered with a extra large meal !

VT I really would TBH we put throw them on the wall its got mud and stuff there

Why are small children walking around picking up faq butts parents should keep a close eye on there kids lol

I'm a smoker and i autally (cringe) stub my fag out and then place it in a bin ! People do give me some strange looks !

O and VT we was told by our management that were not allowed to bring the fag butts back into the building its health and safty or some thing we did request we do that

FUCKING HELL!

If what Roofer says is right then my lung-cancer riddled uncle and grandfather are still alive!

AND WE CREMATED THEM!

I feel bad now.

"AIBU to think people who throw their lit fag ends in the street are as bad as dog owners who dont pick up their shit?"

Yes you are BU on this bit. If you step on a fag butt it won't stick to your shoe, cause blindness, disease, etc. Yes of course you have to watch out for your child picking one up, but the same as with anything on the pavement.

There are also very, very few bins designed to put fag butts in, unlike dog bins. In fact the only ones I've ever seen are outside pubs/offices/shopping centres, never on the street or in the park.