David's Rant
- Age: 39
- Status: Happily Married
- Kids: 2
- Attitude: Pissed off!
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Smokers
What is it with smokers and the trash from their disgusting habit? The second-hand smoke is bad enough, in public, but if you are smoking in your car, I guess the only ones you are killing are you and your kids, so that is just natural selection at work. That really isn't what this rant is about.
It's about the trash. If you are a smoker, please try to help me understand this. What makes you think it is alright to throw your butts out the window of a car? We are talking about a little piece of non-biodegradable fiber wrapped in paper, that only moments ago was on FIRE! What the hell are you thinking? And not only that, but it is litter. Would you throw your candy wrapper out the window when you are done? Or that McDeath bag, full of spent wrappers? Would you? Probable not. And why not? Because you know it is WRONG and ILLEGAL. So, tell me, when you add DANGEROUS, as in 'On Fire', to the that combination of 'WRONG and ILLEGAL', somehow it then becomes OK.How do you rationalize this? OK, OK, I know you already rationalize the addiction, and make no mistake, it is an addiction. You already rationalize the average $1600 a year you waste on this addiction. And the health risks to you and those you love, because it is those you love that get the worse end of this habit, that suffer the respiratory problems such as allergies and asthma. Somehow, and believe me, I have no idea how, you rationalize this too.
--Texas Department of Transportation
So, tell me, how do you rationalize throwing a burning cigarette butt out the window of a moving car? Oh, OK, you never throw a burning butt out, you always extinguish it first. Well, I won't even get into how many fires are started every year from a butt that someone swears was 'out', but just for the sake of argument, you never throw a burning butt out the window.
Sooooo.... that's OK then, right, because now you don't have to deal with all that trash in your car. After all, you also flick the ashes out the window, so you don't have to worry about your ash tray getting full and your car stinking. News Flash: your car stinks anyway. And we don't want the filth from your disgusting habit on the sides of our roads. Or in our parks, or our lakes or rivers or anywhere else.
Here is a quote, to illustrate:
"Each year more than 1 billion pieces of litter will accumulate on Texas highways. Of those, 13 percent are cigarette butts. That means 130 million butts will be tossed out in Texas alone this year."
And, that is just Texas!
I know you don't care, because if you did, you would stop this worthless addiction, but just in case you want to learn MORE about how you impact everyone else in the world with your disgusting habit, go here:
http://www.cigarettelitter.org/
GRIZZ
David 8:07 AM