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

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 :)

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.

littering and killing themselves....sad

and my wife stepped on a "hot" one on the beach, barefoot

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.

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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Originally Posted by STRIPER

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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Wait! You mean they actually used their ash try?

It happens all the time on the roads around here too, where do they think those butts they flick out their window end up?

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

Yes, they can bring up to a carton each I believe.

I agree the butts in the sand are gross... Almost as gross as sitting on my patio enjoying the morning when someone next door decides to "wake and bake"..

According to this article, 2 cartons are permitted into Jamaica which is the same coming into the states.

http://jamaica-guide.info/travel.basics/customs/

Mi Lady uses an empty Red Stripe bottle for an ashtray, sometime Red Stripe Light, occasionally a Dragon Stout. For some reason we always seem to have a good quantity of those around.

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Originally Posted by Weathermon & Mi Lady

According to this article, 2 cartons are permitted into Jamaica which is the same coming into the states.

http://jamaica-guide.info/travel.basics/customs/

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Thanks for the correction!! I knew I should have looked it up first! ;)

That would be 2 cartons per person

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Originally Posted by Jamerican1

Yes, they can bring up to a carton each I believe.

I agree the butts in the sand are gross... Almost as gross as sitting on my patio enjoying the morning when someone next door decides to "wake and bake"..

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Smokers care less about the effects of second hand smoke than they do littering.

I am a smoker...I take a water bottle on the beach to use for butts, and I do spend time picking up nasty butts of other smokers...then I bury my bottle in the sand. KIDDING!! I toss the bottle...lol

I walked by a neighborhood church yesterday. The lawn of the church was heavily covered in butts. (The snow has finally melted away). There are some VERY inconsiderate smokers, and there are some VERY inconsiderate non-smokers. Along the same line as butts in the sand, I hate to see people put butts in the beer bottles. (Red Stripe or otherwise). Negril and Jamaica can raise a person's consciousness, hopefully a few smokers (the inconsiderate variety) catch on.

Yeah that's messed up...sunray what's wrong with butts in bottles??

anyways...i really just wanted to say this:

I QUIT SMOKING!! 25 days Cig free!!!

I was really shocked by the number of times I saw Jamaicans litter on the beach. Wrappers, bottles, cigarette butts, you name it.

Nice. 25 days is really good.The forst 2 weeks are the hardest.Now it will get easier.My only advise Tizzy,is to now Stop countin the day and talking about it.Try to just act like you just don't smoke anymore. I never understood why those who Kick a habit,drugs,coke....

THEN become counselers and all they do is talk about kicking the habit? I quit smoking one night after coughing ALL night and that was that?(except the vegetables products they grow in Ja?)

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Originally Posted by TizzyATX

Yeah that's messed up...sunray what's wrong with butts in bottles??

anyways...i really just wanted to say this:

I QUIT SMOKING!! 25 days Cig free!!!

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Awesome!!! Keep going. You can do it. I did. I used the "Smober" meter to watch my progress. Its been over 10 years.
Smober Meter
http://www.silkquit.org/stop-smoking/quit-meter.aspx

Way to go, Tizzy! You rock! Keep it up.

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Originally Posted by TizzyATX

Yeah that's messed up...sunray what's wrong with butts in bottles??

anyways...i really just wanted to say this:

I QUIT SMOKING!! 25 days Cig free!!!

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That is awesome tizzy,stay with it you will DEFINATELY be glad you did,so will thing 1 and 2!

Maybe the only thing worse than a butt in the sand is one in the spit of an almost empty beer bottle!

Hey y'all smoke em up!!! It's job security for this Respiratory Therapist!!!

Totally kidding ... no screw you posts please! I wish everyone who smokes could see things the way I have to every time I work! It's a slow horrible death when that emphysema hits you full speed. Just pray your MD is nice enough to knock you out with some good stuff :)

Tizzy ... I am very happy for you. Please keep it up!

So, in conclusion, butts on the beach bothers me as well!!!!

Cig butts on the beach. very bad
butts on the beach. very good:cool:

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Originally Posted by Vince

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

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Vince tell your friends to buy at the duty free in the US as the cigs you get in Jamaica are not the same. Its also cheaper if they buy duty free. I think the customs form read you can bring 100 cigs (1 carton) for 1 week stay. I smoke Newport when I bought them leaving Ja for cheap they where not the same. look the same but made in the Phillipines.

To keep from getting many on the board mad at me, I will refrain from telling my thoughts about smokers. :D

(BTW.....the wife and I are both former smokers.)

Thanks yall, I appreciate the encouragement. Fred I'm gonna take that advise....funny thing though...i found the first week to be easier than the next two but as of yesterday it seems to be much better. I'm kinda cheating and using an ecig some of the time but hey smoke free works for me.

Striper Thing 1&2 are stoked! :) and I SMELL SO GOOD hahaha

I dont really care what other people do for the most part but littering butts is a no no...not cool

Is it litter if you don't watch it fall? Seems to be the prevalent thought. Seriously, I think that the sand fleas get lots of sustenance from the saliva on cigarette butts.

Bottle caps in the sand are tied with cig butts, imo. I always stop & pick them up because it could be my feet I'm saving! Nothing like stepping on a rusty bottle cap & cutting your foot to ruin a good time!

Talking about bottle caps. I took a catamaran cruise to ricks cafe back in march of 2000. While we were parked waiting to jump off and swim to ricks I was watching the guide pop a top off a red stripe bottle for me and as the cap started flying overboard I reached out and grabbed it. The guide said No Worries Mon, we just let the caps go into the water. I just shook my head and wondered how that damages the sea and could injure people also.That cant be good can it??

I myself Like butts in the sand but just not the cigarette type.