God bless you. But it's not a matter of politeness. It's a matter of basic respect for the property of others. Now I know that all smokers here always use their car ashtrays and never throw their butts out the window, however, it's the slobs that are creating the poor image.
Bingo!
In this day and age it's all about image and I agree 100% that this is what allows the demonization.
This image making is what will make it easier for the Food Police to demonize the overweight as slobs not worthy of any consideration, the demonization of gun owners as drooling murderers and the demonization of Conservatives as thoughtless cretins.
It's all P.R. Maybe smokers should hire a high-powered PR outfit to sanitize their image or start picking up their damn butts themselves.
But you know what, Ruckus?
It wouldn't matter if smokers were all neat freaks with 160 IQs, they would still be demonized on some grounds and hounded out of the public square.