Sadly it is not. A visit to any park or beach will show that it is accurate.
No it doesn't and It is, because it's a broad generalization and it was an exaggeration claiming that all smokers seem to toss lit butts at people's bare feet.
Not every smoker does what you claim and if you think it's that big of a problem, the easiest solution is to provide more places where one can toss them.... and more people would actually put them where they belong..... and fine those who don't. Banning smoking in a specific outdoor area isn't a solution and it's just stupid.
While I commend you on you're outstanding efforts, you are the exception in my experience. Most people just toss em. Usually put them out but not when in the car. Out the window they go and not another thought of them.
Then fine them..... due to the high risk of brush fires here in Australia, one gets a huge fine for flicking one out their window and based on the way many talk around here, it's a good way to get your ass kicked. Hold similar fines in Canada and you'd see a huge improvement on the problem.
But again, not everybody does what you claim. Not everybody tosses their empty or half-empty coffee cups out their car window.... not everybody just leaves their coffee cups on the shelves in grocery stores..... people doing that pissed me off a lot when I worked in retail, because there's not too many smells I find more disgusting then the smell of cold coffee from a Tim's cup..... so how about we ban drinking coffee everywhere too because of some bad apples?
While I doubt the malevolence, it's common practice here in Toronto. Though I have to say to those frolicking and running about freely barefoot in the grass, quit playing around in my dog's toilet.
Don't forget about broken glass & rusty nails.
"Mick?" ~ Was that a racist term shot my way because I'm Irish?
but few here are as excited as you about keeping your habit from spoiling everyone's environment. Sure you can get some heat by flicking your butt at the park ranger in the dry season, but in places like Toronto most of the trees have been cut down and frankly there are just a lot of people who would be glad to watch old El Toro burn down. Though we are blessed with an experienced and dedicated fire department that will charge a 6 alarm fire to save on long distance rates the mad bastards.
It doesn't matter about your generalizations and what you think other's think.... anything ignited is a potential fire hazard.... and what I am suggesting or talking about isn't exclusive to Toronto but the nation as a whole..... sorry to say, but the country isn't just made up of Toronto and other places in the country do have trees & brush.
Besides, the topic was started based on Beaches, not a concrete tomb for the business yuppies.
No, it isn't. People toss half eaten food, bags of garbage, empty coffee cups, beer bottles, chip bags, fast food packaging, un-wanted babies, old electronics, recycling products, batteries,
EVERYTHING CAN AND IS LITTERED.
Littering is not exclusive to one type of product, it's exclusive to one type of lazy idiot..... if a type of littering goes un-checked and nobody is fined or stopped by police or other officials, then it'll just continue to happen.
It's as simple as that and no more complicated then that.
If you don't like people tossing butts everywhere, then fine them like you would any other person littering. You will then start to see fewer and fewer people doing it.
It's rocket science, not brain surgery.
Now they charge 5 cents for a plastic bag here so most people just put litter in the fancy bins they installed everywhere. It's almost fun!
Just before Christmas Holiday not too long ago, SuperStore tried to pull that idea here in Nova Scotia and because Sobeys didn't charge for their bags, SuperStore suddenly found themselves losing a lot of customers and money, and then during the Holidays, they made them free.... then after the holidays, they never brought it back.
Funny how a loss of profit can make a company change their views on environmentalism.
Well yeah, except the cans of pop. They never last long on the ground as there is an army of poor but able old folks who totally work at recycling. They get a nickle per can or something and they walk around with buggy loads of them taking them into the beer stores to get the money. All tax free income! Ha, what is it they say about old age and treachery?
It doesn't matter who comes afterwards to pick it all up, it's still littering and it's still connected to cans of pop like anything else.
I could use the same argument that someone like Ricky from The Trailer Park Boys comes along and picks up all the butts to smoke because they can't afford their own.
Smokers is some lazy mofos dawg.
As are a larger number of other people..... where's the fight against them?
