The Perfect Foam

Mindlessness Continued

Piggy-backing off of my last post on mindless waste, I wanted to share with you another instance of mindlessness that I witnessed a few days after the incident at the cafe.  And I’m willing to bet you’ve seen this happen as well- most likely countless times.

It entails watching someone smoking a cigarette mindlessly (there’s that word again) flick the cigarette to the ground.

Now don’t even get me started on how ridiculous it is to smoke cigarettes.  I mean, it provides an individual with nothing more than the temporary relief of a craving and causes terrible damage to the human body.  Is drinking alcohol great for your body?  Studies have shown that in moderation alcohol can actually be good for us, though of course as with most things drinking too much can also cause terrible damage to us.  The distinction is that smoking cigarettes is much harder for most people to do in moderation than having a glass of wine or a beer with dinner.

Anyway, I apologize for my digression.

To put it plainly, I find the act of flicking a cigarette bud to the ground to be revolting.  Without thinking, smokers (not all) literally pollute our environment (or cities) with millions of cigarettes a year.  Where does this “inherent” right come from?  Why should this be allowed?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy walking in a park or city and seeing the ground littered with cigarettes.  In my humble opinion, we should ban this practice.  Anytime someone is caught dropping a cigarette bud on the ground they should be fined.  And fined hard.  Like $500 per occurrence!

Harsh?  Yes.  Would this provide the necessary incentive to force people to properly throw away their cigarettes?  YES.

Don’t even get me started on cigarettes in general!  I think they should be banned in ALL public/open places where others may be affected, meaning almost EVERYWHERE!  After all, do we let people openly spray cancer-causing chemicals in the air?  Well, actually…