Yes, by all means let's defend our God-given right to strew the landscape with cigarette butts!
After all, those filter tips will biodegrade in, oh, about 6 or 8 months - what's the problem?
Did you even bother to read the article? If so, try comprehending it.
Damn, I guess we'd better hire a whole buncha' beach cops--maybe one for each half mile of beach.
Since they couldn't cry about second-hand smoke at a beach--what with the ocean BREEZE--they had to figure out some other reason for making smoking a crime.
"After all, those filter tips will biodegrade in, oh, about 6 or 8 months - what's the problem?"
Okay but what about soda/beer cans, plastic wrap, the plastic things that hold beer/soda cans together in six packs. I agree no one should liter but why hold one segment of society to stricter controls than others. You logic is faulty, can you explain how this is fair?