Smokers, Former smokers and non-smokers...

[Stratos]

Actually, I don't see people tossing out their cigarette butts very often.

[Sever]

I'm hopeless. There's no other way to describe it. I work in industrial sheds where the new anti-smoking laws are still pretty lax on account of the myriad of other smoke/spark sources. At work, cigerette butts go on the floor amongst all the other crap. It is a habit that is making inroads to other parts of my life. In my old house, whilst watching a movie or something, it was not uncommon for me to finish a cigerette and then go to chuck it in an ashtray only to discover that i'd been subconsciously ashing on my own carpet. Once when i was drunk i'd even gone one step further and flicked the butt off to the side of the room before i even realised.

Growing up in regional areas has made me a little better when it comes to safely disposing of the butts in the ashtray when i'm driving. I still ash out of the windows though (which got me pulled over when i did it absent mindedly next to a bike cop at the lights. Funny story.)

My new unit, facing the ocean, has a weird wind phenomenon which unerringly places any and all cigerette butts tossed over the balcony onto the balconies of the units below. I now have an old coffee tin.

[Ladyzekke]

Slightly off topic, but it looks like Britain is changing the looks of ciggarette packs. Hello gross graphics!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070829...nhealthtobacco

[Stratos]

Originally Posted by Sever I'm hopeless. There's no other way to describe it. I work in industrial sheds where the new anti-smoking laws are still pretty lax on account of the myriad of other smoke/spark sources. At work, cigerette butts go on the floor amongst all the other crap. It is a habit that is making inroads to other parts of my life. In my old house, whilst watching a movie or something, it was not uncommon for me to finish a cigerette and then go to chuck it in an ashtray only to discover that i'd been subconsciously ashing on my own carpet. Once when i was drunk i'd even gone one step further and flicked the butt off to the side of the room before i even realised.

Did the risk of fires never occur to you.

[Sever]

Originally Posted by Stratos Did the risk of fires never occur to you.

At home? Ya, but it's not like it's a conscious thing when i'm doing it. At work? Na, i only get concerned if i catch fire.

[Cloudbringer]

Ironically enough, one of the news items I heard on my way to work today was that a local man died in a fire that destroyed his home....and they determined it was a carelessly tossed cigarette that was the cause.