Please Clean-Up Your Cigarette Butts!!!

We spend a lot of time outdoors hiking, camping, taking walks on the beach, etc. There’s nothing like being outside in the fresh air and sunshine. It’s healthy for us physically and mentally to spend time outdoors.

I’m sick and tired of seeing all of the cigarette butts everywhere I go. I personally don’t have anything against smokers…nothing at all. If they want to harm their bodies by smoking, that’s entirely up to them. Same with those who drink alcohol. I believe people have rights and freedoms in this country.

However, people don’t have the right to litter. To toss their cigarette butts out the windows of their vehicle, to outten them on sidewalks, walking trails, or to outten them in the sand on a beach. You have the right to smoke but you need to take responsibility of outtening them correctly and disposing them in the right place. Like the trash!!!

Not only is it littering and ugly to look at…it’s dangerous! You can catch another vehicle on fire (if tossing out a window), catch a forest or park on fire, a building/home, etc.

When I worked at a local hospital I saw a small 3 year old child with burns all over their back. How did they get them? Well, Daddy thought he tossed his cigarette out the window of their moving car but instead it landed in the carseat of the baby sitting behind him. Ugh.

Like I said, I have nothing against smokers but please…don’t smoke around non-smokers and PLEASE clean-up your cigarette butts! Rant over!