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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:15 AM Original message |
Media works to banish cigarette butts (#1 most littered item) |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Could it be because 95% of public ashtrays have disappeared? |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. no. I see people flicking butts right over garbage cans all the time |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 01:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
45. It's not safe to throw a recently-lit cigarette into a garbage can |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Stop at Any intersection with a left turning lane. Look along the curb. |
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iaviate1 (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. Who cares about the law? |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. I know. They clog drainage and cause sewers to back up into cities. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. I dunno... |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
43. I've been pocketing mine for years... ever since I found out how long it takes them to decompose. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. Probably just being lazy and inconsiderate |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
2. "As smokers increasingly have been chased outside, the problem has flared." |
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Fedja (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Japan |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Is it too much to ask not to litter |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I like you, so I'll be nice |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:53 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Sounds more like a problem with the guy himself rather... |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I think it is a right in the constitution.... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
48. there's a cost-benefit analysis for burning coal... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
28. Look, I can't do anything about assholes like that |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. why are piles of dry leaves laying around |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:43 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Lovely, the old 'Drinking & Driving' scenario - btw, it doesn't work in this case |
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newburgh (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Taking responsibility for disposing of smokers' garbage is now the |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:31 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Did I say that it was the public's job? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Tahiti... |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 01:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. Or you could stop poisoning everybody unfotunate enough to be in your vicinity? |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. I like your sig-line! I am the same exact way too! |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. With the everlasting primary, DU should set up a support group for the Many DUers who feel this way. |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. The butts that make me angry |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. cathedral lake in yosemite's backcountry... |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. What is the mindset? |
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goddess40 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
11. St. Maarten |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. 34% of beach pollution is cigarette butts. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. There are smokers who would not throw a gum wrapper on the ground, |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
17. Smokers have no concern for the environment they live in. |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #17 |
35. Christ, what an insulting generalization! |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. delete |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 12:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
37. Right on, Bandit! n/t |
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Fedja (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 05:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
38. Sorry for polluting. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
44. Another vote for you |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
18. Bull shit! I say chewing gum is the most littered item. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. Oh, this is sooo much more important than, |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I don't recall the OP saying that |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. 4000 dead is only four days of dead caused by tobacco |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
24. I would like to point out... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 09:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. I would like to think more communities would be like Media |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
33. It's a great idea to bring back the ash urns! I have already made sure the hot ash was gone |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
39. legalize pot |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
40. Pocket ashtrays need to get trendy. |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
41. Huh? People STILL smoke? |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I don't get it. |
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yorgatron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. when i joined the army and went to basic training they made us pick up cigarette butts. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #41 |
49. I smoke. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. I know, right? |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-26-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
52. There are a lot of lazy, inconsiderate slobs out there. Some of them smoke. |
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