Cigarette butts in the sand
One of my personal pet peeves in Negril is watching tourists sit on the beach smoking all day, poking their cigarette butts into the sand as if that made them magically disappear. There is a campaign going on to raise awareness that cigarette butts are not biodegradable, they are at least mildy toxic, and that they should be disposed of properly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/bu...xic-waste.html
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Thomas E. Novotny, a professor of global health at San Diego State University, said that while no direct link had been demonstrated between littered cigarette butts and human health, the butts leach measurable amounts of cadmium, arsenic, lead and nicotine.
A single cigarette butt in a liter of water containing minnows is toxic enough to kill half of the fish within 96 hours, a standard toxicity test, according to an experiment featured in an article published in the journal Tobacco Control that Professor Novotny helped write.
“We can’t show that there’s actually human harm but we should look at it as a potential harm and prevent it from contaminating the environment,” said Professor Novotny.
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People use ashtrays at Nirvana
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This is a pet peeve of mine as well ..... and I am a smoker.
I always make sure that I have something to dispose of the butts in with me when I am at the beach. Quite easy to do, as I'm not normally at the beach without a quickly emptying Red Stripe in my hand :)
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Always wondered why smokers thought it was okay to flick butts wherever they pleased. It's as if the whole world is their ash tray.
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littering and killing themselves....sad
and my wife stepped on a "hot" one on the beach, barefoot
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Butts in the sand is one of my peeves too.
I watch smokers dispose of their butts in the sand and cover them up - just like a dog covers his turds.
At white Sands - where I stay, I see Leedon, the security guard, walking around picking up butts that smokers have tossed and it really pee-es me off. Leedon works hard enough without having to pick up after smokers.
But (no pun intended) I don't see this problem going away, most smokers do feel that the world is their ashtray.
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Sign me up pisses me off as well,it's awesome when you pull up to a stop light and someone has emptied their ash tray right there !WTFO?
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Sign me up pisses me off as well,it's awesome when you pull up to a stop light and someone has emptied their ash tray right there !WTFO?
Wait! You mean they actually used their ash try?
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It happens all the time on the roads around here too, where do they think those butts they flick out their window end up?
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Got a question~I don't smoke but the newbies do.We are flying US Airlines.(do'nt know if that matters though)We are staying 2 weeks,can they bring there own cigerettes with them in the luggae? or what can they do?~Soon Come
