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Littering smokers make our world just a little bit filthier every single day, day after day, week after week, month after month. Everywhere they go, they make things just a little more tawdry, a little uglier, less pristine. I say let's prosecute 'em. (We may want to pass some new laws first.) Use
DNA testing to identify them.
DNA testing of spit
http://www.polkonli...02498/sta_spit.html
Mentions the idea of getting DNA samples from cigarette butts, too. This story was pretty widely reported at the time. [wiml, Aug 31 2000]
spooky
http://www.thegothi...pe.com/holders.html
gothic cigarette holders [prometheus, Jan 11 2002]
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You got my vote!! I do not think I ever have less respect for other people than when I see them toss a butt out of their car window. The thoughtlessness and self-centeredness involved in such an action is incomprehendible to me. |
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As littering is already against the law, (but hardly if ever enforced) , what we need are special amendments that will make enforcing the law a little more worth while. (i.e. huge fines, or public stonings). |
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Where I live, deer come out to the sides of the highway to eat the cigarette butts thrown from cars. They like the tobacco, apparently. I wonder how many people have been killed in car-deer collisions indirectly because of the cigarette litter. |
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This presupposes that the government or some other organization has collected a library of everyone's DNA. (As they are starting to do, at least with criminals). Next thing you know, they'll be prosecuting spitters and those people who leave pubic hairs on toilet seats. |
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I have a feeling that the cigarette holder would come back into fashion quite rapidly. |
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It just occurred to me that this might be funny:
"Detective, we just ran a DNA scan on that cigarette butt and it looks like our perp was a tobacco plant." |
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I hate few things more than finding a pile of burnt butts dropped in a parking lot just as you open your car door! What are these people thinking? I don't take a crap and leave it for them to find?!? |
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I smoke. I empty ashtray into trash container. I outsmarted you by cutting my salivary glands out so as not to be busted just in case one falls out. I'm so thirsty. |
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Could work in Iceland, where the government has a record of the entire population's DNA. |
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First thing what do gloves have to do with anything??? second, You'd have to fine them depending on the stats, if for every 10 buts you catch 1 person make their fine cover the charges of 15 DNA tests. that can get quite expensive, and on top of it put them on a cleanup crew, going arround the city like criminals, cleaning out gutters, and sidewalks. this may sound in-mumane but it would work, think about other countrys, people get cained for spiting on the side walk. |
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cletusboy: Do you wear gloves on your lips? 'Cause that's where the DNA comes from. |
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You wanna get rid of everything which makes the world ugly? How about loud American tourists in plaid trousers? |
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Waugsqueke - the deer don't get addicted. They chew but don't inhale. |
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Well, to make this fair you'd need to do DNA testing on ALL litter. |
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With American law the way it is you'd need a warrant to sieze the litter before you could tender it as evidence, wouldn't you? <grin> ...UB^) |
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A one dollar bill is only slightly different from a 20$ bill, but you can tell them apart, can't you? |
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UnaBubba: I think that American law has it that trash is public. Once you throw it away, anyone who wants to can pick it up and do whatever they like with it. Including the police; see link. |
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bristoltz: Perhaps, but a huge amount of roadside litter is tobacco-related. |
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As measured how, [mt]? By weight, volume or number of objects? I can believe the latter, but have a hard time believing either of the former. |
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Why not prosecute them under the hazardous chemical laws. According to Keep America Beautiful, smokers litter about 4.7 trillion cigarettes a year. Medical sources indicate the average cigarette butt contains 3 mg of nicotine - and the lethal dose for nicotine in adults is around 60 mg. Do the math . . . Cigarette litter for one year contains enough poison to kill the entire world population 3.79 times over. Sounds like a weapon of mass destruction to me. |
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Add nose litter and chewing gum. |
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When the purp is DNA scanned for a violent crime the DB will alert the authorities and boy do they have some community service to perform. |
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Too bad this wouldn't work for dog stools. |
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Save everybody the trouble and legislate filters that are biodegradable. Hell, make 'em biodegrade into fertilizer. If they're more expensive, it's only smokers who incur the cost. |
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Make the filters out of solid gold, then they won't get chucked away. Hell, they won't even be able to smoke the cigs, cos nothing would get through the solid gold filter. But they won't care - "Look, a lump of gold! Woo-hoo!" Problem is, they're liable to chuck away the rest of the ciggie, so that will have to be made of gold too. |
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