And, most discouraging of all was that the butts were within a few short feet of receptacles specifically for the cigarettes. On my hands and knees, I scraped hundreds, thousands of cigarette butts off the ground and placed them in garbage bags. The cigarette butts were all around the courthouse. Cigarette smokers are already social outcasts, forced to sneak away to puff on their cigarettes outdoors. Sympathy for their addiction erodes, however, when one sees the piles of litter they create.
Cigarette smokers are rebels.
They don't need to rebel against community beauty and pride, however. Think about it, smokers. That cigarette butt you toss out the window of your car or that you grind with your shoe on the sidewalk isn't going to go away all by itself. And, they accumulate more rapidly than you can imagine. According to research conducted by Keep America Beautiful, the reasons are pretty simple.