The idea, as always, is to find more Revenues, via fines for smoking. I'm sure we've ALL seen the abundance of Radar Traps and other means of assessing Fines (a big Revenue source for communities and the State). I know that in a LOT of places, they've started fining cigarette butt tossers in the neighborhood of $150 for throwing a single butt out the window of your car. I don't condone littering, either, but I sure see a LOT more McD's wrappers and coffee carryout cups littering the highway, than I do cigarette butts. (Nothing is more disgusting than having a driver empty his ashtray on the parking lot next to his car at a mall, etc.)
I would like to see them FINE those women who wear $1/quart perfume for air pollution, myself.
I never used to litter and in fact loathe it. However, as I am walking to work I walk by the local HS and will throw my but on the ground there. I do it because it is government owned property and they have f’d with smokers enough that I am doing it out of spite. I will not discard any of my butts on anyone’s private property....