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For the life of me, I just don’t understand people who smoke. Everyone has to cater to them. They trow their trash all over the gound. They burn stuff down. They go to sleep with a cigarette in their mouths killing themselves, family members and neighbors. They start forest fires.

What about MY property rights??? I'm sick and tired of cleaning up cigarette butts in front of my house. Every week I'm out there sweeping them up. Would anyone here think about tossing a piece of trash on someone else's property? Smokers don't think twice about it. A hundred cigarette butts add up, trust me. Can someone explain to me why many, not all, smokers think it is okay to litter? I knew a chain smoker who lived near me. I actually respected the guy because at least he had the decency to carry an empty coke can with him wherever he went instead of stomping the butts out on the ground or tossing them out the car window on the highway. Would anyone here just think about tossing a fast-food bag out the window while driving down the highway? Smokers toss lit butts out the window on the highway ALL the time. If smokers want more rights and respect, they should at least observe some basic rules of etiquette and stop littering everywhere.

What about MY property rights??? I’m sick and tired of cleaning up cigarette butts in front of my house
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I pick up more than cigarette butts in front of my house, fast food wrappers, bottles and cans, lottery tickets, etc.

About once a month I walk my property line and on the other side of the street, 1200 feet, I usually garner a full leaf trash bag of trash, some of which are cig butts.

Throwing cigarette butts on the ground IS littering and should be treated as such, along with people who throw out their car trash so their vehicles are clean.

I for one always use an ash tray I’ve put in my car and always field strip my cigarette to find a trash can later.

Not all litterbugs are smokers and not every smoker is a litterbug.

Would anyone here just think about tossing a fast-food bag out the window while driving down the highway?

I live on a very heavily travelled road and have 500 feet of road frontage. In my regular cleaning of the ditches I find FAR more fast food trash and liquor/beer/soda bottles/cans than I find cigarette butts.

BTW, no one throws a cigarette butt out my car window; if they do it will be the last time they do such a stupid thing.........I'll stop the car and make them get out and find it. There is an ashtray in my car and it is used for only one thing -- discarding cigarettes.