[massmike]

Full title:

Should we ban cigarette filters? Scientists claim that 4.6 TRILLION litter the planet each year and damage the environment

[MUDDOG]

Make ‘em smoke the real thing — unfiltered Camels and Luckies.

[Responsibility2nd]

How about we ban cigarette filters but leave unfiltered cigarettes legal.

That would please everyone, right?

/sarc

[A_Former_Democrat]

Let’s just ban everything

Except dope, sodomy, “man-boy ‘love’” reverse discrimination, and illegal immigration

[Obadiah]

Novotny and Slaughter … want the tobacco industry to be held legally responsible for clean-up costs associated with their products...

How about the low-information types among us STOP using the outside as their ashtray!

It is illegal to liter, yet every smoker thinks absolutely nothing about throwing his butt out the car window. Same thing with those walking around who trow their butt on the ground. If I did that with my gum wrapper I'd have the eco nazis all over me and I would correctly get a ticket. Why is it different for smokers?

[Reverend Wright]

back to Players plain...

cough ! cough !

[Cementjungle]

And the researchers claim the ban on indoor smoking may have made this situation worse.

So, as I see it, the is the fault of those who banned indoor smoking. Back when we could smoke indoors, there were ashtrays... which bartenders and others collected butts in so they could properly dispose of them.

If you force people to smoke their (legal) cigarettes in the middle of the street, then you're probably going to find butts there.

[ken5050]

How else can we collect DNA evidence against the perps..

[Sherman Logan]

Color me highly skeptical. Tobacco, as such, is not particularly more hazardous or toxic than just about any other plant product. The smoke from burning tobacco is actually quite similar to smoke from burning cotton, wood, or other plants.

The reason cigarette smoke is hazardous is simply because people routinely inhale it deeply into their lungs in massive quantities over long periods of time, because of the addictive qualities of nicotine. It’s not that there’s anything all that unusually hazardous about the smoke itself.

Since cigarettes are mainly tobacco and paper (wood/cellulose), I find it difficult to imagine discarded butts as all that toxic. But possibly there’s something unusually hazardous about the filters.

[BitWielder1]

Take a tiny problem and multiply it with a really large number and now you have another crisis.
It's like the electricity "wasted" by billions of standby LED lights a few years ago.
Even Bush fell for it. Eventually it came to nothing, as this will.

[Inyo-Mono]

I must live in a very unusual place. Visitors and tourists are always surprised by the lack of trash, litter, cigarette butts, and graffiti here.

[Cboldt]

Birds use them to line their nests, and get the benefits of the nicotine insecticide.

Cigarette Butts in Nests Deter Bird Parasites - December 4, 2012