Evan Dodds – Non-work-related blog

Now, I could write up an entire series of blog posts about smokers and what I find irritating about smoking. I’ll save myself the time and you the hassles of reading such a sequence, and boil down my complaints to a single one that’s bugging me today.

Smokers litter

That’s my big complaint today. Now, prefacing this rant with the acknowledgement that it’s not fair to collectively condemn an entire group of people for such a thing, I think it’s fair to say that the average smoker is distinctly more inclined to litter than the average non-smoker.

Oh come on, Evan… you might say. That’s just hogwash. I’m a smoker and I don’t litter. Well, unfortunately, many of your smoking brothers-in-arms are not so considerate!

Why, recently I saw someone roll down their car window while driving along 23rd Ave S in Seattle and heave an emptied pack of cigarettes (wrapper) out the window. Now, it’s possible they weren’t a smoker… but somehow I doubt it.

And that doesn’t even begin to explain the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of cigarette butts I walk past each day. Sure, it’s possible they were all appropriately disposed of in trash bins which were subsequently blown over by wind, scattering the cigarette butts throughout the land. But I doubt it.

Smokers – your habit is disgusting enough; can’t you please throw away your litter in the appropriate place like everyone else does?!

(note to my cigar and/or pot smoking readers — I don’t see nearly as much of these as litter, so while I’m not a fan of the second-hand smoke, at least you and yours are seemingly off the hook for litter-common-sense )