Using the no bins excuse is utter rubbish, if there isn't a bin nearby you keep hold of it until you find one.
Ban on smoking in the street, Suggested by Leicestershire Council
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Soldato
Agreed but the amount of butts laying around the streets mean that plenty of smokers don't seem to have the same opinion, they probably wouldn't like the smell that the old/stale/used butt gave off if they had to carry them around.
Poor lambs
Poor lambs
Soldato
And the Anti smoking brigade is out in force.
I love how we smokers get tarred with the same brush. How we all apparently are too lazy to find a bin to put our cigs out in. I was in Leicester city centre the other week and was having a smoke while my sister was browsing in one of the shops. It doesn't sound much, but I had to walk from one side of the street to the other to find somewhere to put my cigarette out. If there is a bin nearby I'll happily use it rather than drop it on the floor, but if the council don't want litter on the streets, put more bins out.
I love how we smokers get tarred with the same brush. How we all apparently are too lazy to find a bin to put our cigs out in. I was in Leicester city centre the other week and was having a smoke while my sister was browsing in one of the shops. It doesn't sound much, but I had to walk from one side of the street to the other to find somewhere to put my cigarette out. If there is a bin nearby I'll happily use it rather than drop it on the floor, but if the council don't want litter on the streets, put more bins out.
That's exactly what people are talking about, it's your junk, keep it with you until you find a bin even if it means carrying it all day.
This isn't an anti smoking attitude, it's anti slob.
It doesn't sound like much because it isn't much, this is exactly the sort of lazy attitude people are talking about. unless you're some from of **** then what exactly is taking about crossing the street to make use of a litter bin.
Soldato
Do not ban smoking.
Smoking is a way for people with crap jobs to pay their fair share of the tax money, and a way for those on benefits to give the money back to the government.
Smoking is a way for people with crap jobs to pay their fair share of the tax money, and a way for those on benefits to give the money back to the government.
Soldato
Fix'd OLOLOLOL.
Associate
Problem is now that indoors is smoke free you tend to notice the slightest whiff outdoors particularly if some Waynetta blows it in your face as you pass the desperado's camped outside the precinct entrances. Amazed at the number of girls & women who smoke, far more than men it seems, must be like kissing a stale ashtray, yuk
It is like kissing a stale ashtry, the worst ones are the ones that actually smell like ashtrays instead of the fresh smell of a lit cig. Don't recoil, or you'll embarass both yourself and her. Nowadays I just punch them in the ovaries as a greeting gesture.
Soldato
oh noes.. I'd better inform my employer to cut my decent wage in half, quick sharp!
Do smokers pay less than their fair share of tax on other products - is there a smokers discount that I'm not aware of or something?
Jesus H. Another thread full of dweebs whinging about smokers.
We have spiralling reposessions, swathes of people losing their jobs and homes. Financial meltdown. Clueless politicians who make the Chuckle Brothers look professional, global terrorism, the British army stretched to breaking point, OAPs that can no longer afford to eat or put their heating on, an immigration crisis, unemployed children murdering eachother on the streets.
And all you lot can come up with is someone in Leicester has been dropping dog ends.
Get a grip. This country was built on tobacco and alcohol tax and still is..
We have spiralling reposessions, swathes of people losing their jobs and homes. Financial meltdown. Clueless politicians who make the Chuckle Brothers look professional, global terrorism, the British army stretched to breaking point, OAPs that can no longer afford to eat or put their heating on, an immigration crisis, unemployed children murdering eachother on the streets.
And all you lot can come up with is someone in Leicester has been dropping dog ends.
Get a grip. This country was built on tobacco and alcohol tax and still is..
Man of Honour
Absolutely and thats why I didn't agree with the smoking ban in pubs even though I've never smoked in my life.
However, I still can't understand why a smoker will stand next to a bin and throw their dog end on the floor.
Soldato
i think its actually worse listening (or reading) to people who moan about the people moaning about smokers lol.
at the end of the day, littering is littering and a person (ill refrain from calling them 'a smoker') is far more lazy with a fag but than an item of rubbish. that much is obvious. as for the ashtrays inside comment well, i distinctly remember treading on fag butts with every other step in a busy nightclub. all the ban has done is move the rubbish outside.
one thing i cant argue with, is that there should be more bins. not just for butts, for everything. anywhere i go, never enough bins. it does anger me somewhat - if we are to be encouraged not to litter, for god's sake supply us with the bins!
at the end of the day, littering is littering and a person (ill refrain from calling them 'a smoker') is far more lazy with a fag but than an item of rubbish. that much is obvious. as for the ashtrays inside comment well, i distinctly remember treading on fag butts with every other step in a busy nightclub. all the ban has done is move the rubbish outside.
one thing i cant argue with, is that there should be more bins. not just for butts, for everything. anywhere i go, never enough bins. it does anger me somewhat - if we are to be encouraged not to litter, for god's sake supply us with the bins!
Soldato
Where does it end though, chewing gum is worse. just ban everything.
Soldato
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Caporegime
all smokers drop fag ends in the streets? cmon guys that like saying everyone who eats a packet of crisp in the street throws the packet onto the floor...
im a smoker and i dont even smoke anywhere but in the house so thats atleast one person who isnt throwing ciggy ends on the floor.
anyone complaining about the smell out in the street probably doesnt mind throwing petrol fumes out the back of there car and poluting the air for those of us who dont drive i bet.
i might not like the smell of your gas guzzling car but i deal with it.
im a smoker and i dont even smoke anywhere but in the house so thats atleast one person who isnt throwing ciggy ends on the floor.
anyone complaining about the smell out in the street probably doesnt mind throwing petrol fumes out the back of there car and poluting the air for those of us who dont drive i bet.
i might not like the smell of your gas guzzling car but i deal with it.
Soldato
i dont think anybody said that?
i bet you use public transport if you dont drive. thats a silly comparison. the (main) problem that people have with smokers outside is that you have to walk through it to get inside, whether its a pup, club, shopping center.....and thats not very pleasant even for a smoker. if you going to be comparing that to transport, then maybe you should compare it to standing behind a bus with your nose stuffed up the exhaust perhaps.