If you look at old Q’s about this, a lot of smokers admit that they didn’t think twice about it, they didn’t consider it littering. I use the past tense, because most of them had come around eventually, but had spent years smoking and not thinking anything was wrong with it.
When I see someone through a cig butt in the ground I say something. One time it happened in a Walgreens parking lot, and the guy said he didn’t want the butts in his car, and maybe stores should have a place to put out cigarettes outside the doors. Idiot.
Yeah, like he only does it in front of stores—bullshit.
He doesn’t want butts in his car, but it’s ok on our streets? Like I said—-idiot.
Anyway, call their attention to it by saying something, and police need to cite people, and eventually I think it will happen less and less.
Start a social media campaign. Photograph butts on the ground and post it in Facebook. Or, just write a status on Facebook saying “cigarette butts are litter when you throw them on the ground.” Or, make up a lie saying go heard simeonevwas fines $100 for littering.
When I was in high school the passenger in my boyfriend’s car was fined $100 when he threw a paper cup out of the car window, and that was a lot of money back then.