PSA: Smokers, This is One Reason Why We Don't Like Your Nasty Habit

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 01/30/2018 at 08:31 • Filed to: None

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I’m not sure what possesses Smokers to also be Litterbugs, but they should be ashamed. I would be more tolerant of their nasty habits if they kept their smoke to themselves and put their butts in a trash can.

All of my grandparents were smokers. Nothing makes a kid want to spend less time with grandparents than a stinky smoke-filled house. They all died from smoking-related illnesses.

That’s all I have to say about that.

CalzoneGolem > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 08:36

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Also, quitting is a bitch but you can do it and you’ll feel way better but not right away.

Nibby > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 08:38

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not to mention everything smells awful

Hoccy > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 08:46

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Norway is about to ban smoking in public outdoor places like bus stops and such. Not sure how they will enforce this ban but it sounds delightful.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 08:50

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I know the feeling. I haven’t woken up with a tight chest in about 6 1/2 years. Quitting sucked but after about 3 weeks I had no major cravings. Although sometimes it does smell tempting when I smell someone light up a fresh cigarette.

David E. Davis > Hoccy 01/30/2018 at 08:55

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Quite a few major cities ban smoking within a certain distance from building entrances. Some states have banned smoking on public beaches. I’m sure I could find more examples but I can’t be arsed right now.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 08:56

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An interesting fact that I learned by going to the Carolina Raptor Center:

Cigarette butts are a major contributing factor to hawk and owl roadkill in urban and suburban areas. Because they’re mostly cotton or synthetic fiber, they make a good nesting material for rodents. These rodents are prey animals for the raptors, and can be easy targets when they’re on the roadside. When a hawk or owl is diving in for a kill, it doesn’t usually have great awareness of its periphery. If a car is coming down the road at that moment, the bird will often dive right into its path.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 08:57

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The amount of times I’ve seen cigarette buts, often still burning, dropped or tossed from the windows of cars, is enough to make me drop this a star.

Hoccy > David E. Davis 01/30/2018 at 08:59

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Not that many people smoke in Norway anymore anyways, they’ve either quit or changed to snus . That is as disgusting when they throw it outside a trash can, but at least it doesn’t smell as bad. I’ve recently moved to Germany and I was surprised by the amount of smokers here. It’s not as bad as France though.

diplodicus > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:01

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I recently quit again, but I always put my butts in my trash can after putting them out because I hate that shit. I got new neighbors and they chain smoke on their porch and then just flick the butts into both my yard and theirs. The people on the other side of me apparently don’t understand what garbage bags or cans are for and just put their trash directly on the boulevard sometimes days before collection. Then it blows all over my front yard. I used to just pick it up, but I’ve started picking it up and throwing it on their porch because fuck them and there lazy fat asses.I’m thinking about doing the same thing with my other neighbors butts too cause I’m an asshole like that.
 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:01

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I’m not sure which is worse: the pile of cigarette butts in the parking lot of the dirty diaper left behind. Imagine what this fossil layer is going to look like in a million years. Right above the level of can tabs will be the level of cigarette butts. At least my cigar butts are biodegradable (though I have now quit).

CalzoneGolem > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 01/30/2018 at 09:05

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I was biking to work daily when I quit. For a couple weeks it got worse but then it got better once I coughed up all the crap from my lungs.

Wacko > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:07

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i smoked for 20 years, finally quit for good in 2014

don’t miss it one bit.

fintail > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:10

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Like some other groups, many seem to think they are persecuted, and probably toss the butts out of spite. Definitely should be a nice fine.

CalzoneGolem > diplodicus 01/30/2018 at 09:16

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Keep up the quitting brother! It took me multiple tries before I managed to kick it for good.

CalzoneGolem > Wacko 01/30/2018 at 09:17

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Congrats on quitting!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Hoccy 01/30/2018 at 09:17

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In some states they ban smoking in and within a certain distance of the entrance to public buildings. Here in Louisiana, state law says you have to be at least 25 feet away from the entrance of public buildings and 200 feet away from schools. Whether or not this enforced depends on the location and purpose of the building. Downtown courthouse? Strictly enforced. Local DMV office, maybe not.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 01/30/2018 at 09:23

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I experienced this! Well, it wasn’t for a raptor chasing a rat. It was a dark night and I was one my way home after the evening shift which ended at midnight. I was almost home, so I was way out in the country. My car flushed a rabbit out of the ditch and an owl took the opportunity to catch a meal. I didn’t know it was happening until t he windshield became a wall of feathers. Fortunately, I was going slow (watching the rabbit) and was able to get on the brakes hard enough to avoid hitting the owl. The a drenalin  rush kept me awake for a couple of hours!

Ssfancyfresh > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:25

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I was a casual smoker for a short period of time. Woke up one day and decided, I’m gonna start smoking! Hazzah!

I always felt extreme shame when I would smoke in my car and flick the butt out the window. Most of the time, I tried to stash the butts in an empty water bottle to dispose of properly. Ashing and stashing the butts in the car was always a desperate last resort.

Anyway. I agree. It’s gross. I don’t do it anymore. Sorry.

Danger > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:25

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Catching a fresh cig to the throat, thrown by some fuck head, while I’m riding a Moto 50mph, is a special kind of fun.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Hoccy 01/30/2018 at 09:27

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We call it dip over here. Most people dipping spit into a can or a cup and yes, that stuff is Nasty. I worked in a university computer lab as a grad student. One morning I had to throw away a keyboard because someone had spilled their spit cup into it. Why they didn’t take care of it themselves is beyond me.

Ash78, voting early and often > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:33

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I’m still struggling with how we — as a society — tolerated smoking for so long. When I was in high school in the mid-90s, we could still walk around the mall while smoking. You couldn’t go into stores or toss your butts on the floor, but still.

Then a competing mall opened and only allowed smoking in the food court. We thought they were being Nazis.

In southern Europe around the same time, it was 10x worse. I remember spending the summer in Spain and Italy and they made us college kids look like lightweights. Smokes for grandma, smokes for the baby...sure, why not?! It was what my parents had described the 1950s were like (with respect to tobacco).

DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:36

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You’d love my across the hall neighbors. I left at the same time as one of them the other day and the smell coming from their open door made my sinuses burn. And its not just regular cigarettes either (if you know what I mean). And they leave their butts all over the halls.

Nothing > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:46

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I’ve never understood a habit where you have to crack your window and hold your habit outside when you aren’t using it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 09:49

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My cousin was a heavy smoker . He used to freak us out by holding his breath and building up pressure in his lungs, then exhaling the smoke that was released. He could do this even when he hadn’t had a cigarette for a couple of hours. 

Dogsatemypants > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:51

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Other fun fact, butts killfrogs and other amphibians. They are very sensitive to nicotine in their environment, and sometimes they mistake fiberglass filters for food.

I smoke, but i pick up after myself.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Wacko 01/30/2018 at 09:51

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After my grandfather died of Leukemia, my grandmother finally listen ed to the doctors and quit smoking. A few years later, she was explaining how she hated to go over to a friend’s house since it always reeked of smoke. Yeah, grandma, that’s why we didn’t like to go over to your  house.

TheRealBicycleBuck > DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back 01/30/2018 at 09:56

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One of the few things I LOVED about being a resident adviser in college was busting people smoking in their rooms. Hello! Don’t you know that everyone can smell that? Haven’t you figured out that cigarettes and weed don’t smell the same? Aren’t you glad it was me and not the guy with the badge that showed up at your door?

David E. Davis > Hoccy 01/30/2018 at 09:57

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A friend discovered snus a few years ago as a tobacco replacement. He mentioned there is even a type without nicotine or carcinogens. Can’t remember exactly.

CalzoneGolem > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 09:59

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WTF?

S65 > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 10:00

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Yeah my grandfather died from complications of bronchitis. And he suffered from lung cancer, let’s just say I’m not,exactly a fan of smoking

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Hoccy 01/30/2018 at 10:02

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BC bans smoking at bus stops, parks and within 3 metres of a door, window or air intake.

Funktheduck > David E. Davis 01/30/2018 at 10:03

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I see a mint dip at some gas stations. Never looked at them closely enough to see if it’s just mint or mint mixed with stuff

Scary__goongala! > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 10:21

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Twice I’ve had people throw butts out the window and have it hit my car, so then I get sparks flying across the hood of my car. The desire to perform a PIT maneuver was strong.

Funktheduck > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 10:27

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I know a few people busted for smoking weed in the dorms

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Scary__goongala! 01/30/2018 at 10:28

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One day someone in a door less Wrangler ashed on my car, so I retaliated. The FiST has a nasty habit of sending most of it’s wiper fluid over and around the car. I passed the Wrangler, shortened the distance between us, and sprayed for a solid 15 seconds. Hopped in the left lane, slowed down and stared. They were soaked.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Nothing 01/30/2018 at 10:39

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I’d bet  you don’t eat Durian either.

Scary__goongala! > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 01/30/2018 at 10:39

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Awesome. For both times there wasn’t anything I do that wouldn’t had led to something bad happening. So I just had to take it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 01/30/2018 at 10:42

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Is this you?

Wacko > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 10:43

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i think having kids was the major help i needed to quit for good.

now if i can just loose the 15-20 pounds i gained since quitting.....

CalzoneGolem > Wacko 01/30/2018 at 10:48

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I quit because I was broke and it was all I could afford to get my girlfriend for her birthday. She loved that present and hated the cigarettes. It must have worked out because we got married.

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 11:03

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“Nothing makes a kid want to spend less time with grandparents than a stinky smoke-filled house.”

That was my house. My parents were both heavy smokers. My dad still is, my mom is dead from it.

My dad used to spend all day chain smoking in his office in the basement ... which is where my toys were. I’d come home from school, and go down in the basement to play in what I can only describe as a fog of cigarette smoke. Picture the smokiest bar you have ever been in, and double it. Most of my Lego are nicotine stained. 

When I turned 18, my dad said, “Now you’re old enough to go get our smokes for the week.” I told him in no uncertain terms that I would never buy their cigarettes, They bought three cartons a week, BTW. That’s how much they smoked.

TheRealBicycleBuck > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 11:20

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After grandpa died and grandma quit, she did the math and realized she could have bought a new house if she had saved the money instead of smoking it. She made her living as an accountant. It’s a wonder she had never run the numbers before.

TheRealBicycleBuck > shop-teacher 01/30/2018 at 11:25

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Dang. My grandparents lived an hour away, but I can’t count the number of Saturdays  we spent over there, especially when my mom was keeping the books for my grandfather’s business. I loved my grandparents, but hated their house. The only saving grace was that they had cable and we didn’t. Even that wasn’t enough to keep me in the house for long.

CalzoneGolem > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 11:34

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I’m trying to convince my buddy to quit while he’s going through chemo for testicular cancer.

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 11:36

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I was so used to it, that I didn’t even care about the smell. I can’t stand the smell of smoke anymore though.

I never even considered taking a puff of anything though. I was so sick of that BS, that by the time I was old enough to try smoking, I didn’t want anything to do with it.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 11:38

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Was that a question with an image or just a question?

Pich, with Z32 now featuring Civic [Si] / No > Wacko 01/30/2018 at 11:47

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good for you!

(in a non-sarcastic way)

TheRealBicycleBuck > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 12:34

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Dang. Chemo sucks. Withdrawal  while undergoing chemo will suck harder.

CalzoneGolem > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 12:36

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Not as much as more chemo for lung cancer.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Dogsatemypants 01/30/2018 at 12:36

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+1 star for cleaning up after yourself.

-1 star for smoking in the first place.

Really, having lost three grandparents to smoking-related illnesses, I implore you to stop.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 01/30/2018 at 12:37

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KINJA!!!!!!

Dogsatemypants > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 12:54

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I tried a few times. I don’t handle stress or social interaction on a protracted basis particularly well, and smoking has become my adaptive coping mechanism.

It is not healthy, but i hate myself for doing it, so it works out.

Other fun fact. Those warnings on the newer quit smoking meds are no joke. Think happy thoughts if you’re on them.

Pistol Whipped Cream > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 13:35

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PREACH

TheRealBicycleBuck > CalzoneGolem 01/30/2018 at 14:25

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True.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Dogsatemypants 01/30/2018 at 14:27

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I’m not sure what grandma did to stop smoking. One of my grandpas stopped when he had a stroke, the other stopped when he was diagnosed with Leukemia. My other grandma died when I was little, so I have no idea whether she smoked or what killed her.

ranwhenparked > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/30/2018 at 20:45

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Especially since ashtrays are a thing.

If you are such a dick that you absolutely have to give in to your compulsion to litter, at the very least switch to nonfilters so they biodegrade the first time it rains.