[HamiltonJay]

Joe,

I never said anything about banning smoking reducing litter... I don't even agree with this stupid bill... its uneforceable and nonsense. The message of mine you responded to was a direct response I made to another that claimed that smokers were "generally courteous" to those around them... my repsonse had nothing to do with this bill helping litter or not.. it was only a response to the claim smokers are generally courteous.

Which by the litter they generate is a very debatable stand. That is all, its hard to put for the claim smokers are largely courteous, when the visual evidence of their "coureousy" can be seen being flicked from car windows and into storm sewers constantly.

[Just another Joe]

The message of mine you responded to was a direct response I made to another that claimed that smokers were "generally courteous" to those around them...

I realize that.
Using anecdotal evidence (my observations of the people around ME) smokers are "generally courteous".
I also realize that the majority are smokers I do NOT know. You did bring up the subject of cigarette butts as litter and the unintended consequence of a bill such as this, if adhered to, would be an increase in the amount of that litter.
It may be unenforcable but there are people out there that will try to have it enforced. If you doubt that you are again mistaken.