Smokers, the road is NOT an ashtray!

[blas]

Butt Buckets are less than $3 at Wal-Mart and they self extinguish.

I also get enraged when driving and I see sodas and fast food bags all over the road.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Whole group of non-smokers have a party at someone's house, we invite smoking friends over with the caveat that they smoke outside, and we all end up picking frigging butts out of the lawn the next day.

My neighbor's collage age daughter had some frinds over for a late night party, which prompted a noise complaint. The next morning I found cigarette butts on my side of the six foot fence separating us. Being a gentleman, I returned them back over the fence.

[MadMike]

That's right, guy on his way to Pennsic sucked in the butt flicked from the car in front of him on the highway through his window and it set his back seat on fire. I saw the pics.

I had someone's cigarette land right in my lap once when I was driving. Somehow I managed not to get burned, but I was pissed! I'm not the confrontational type, but that time my wife actually had to talk me out of chasing the asshole down.

If these idiots want to set themselves on fire, more power to them. But don't do it to me.

[Lots42]

I once found a smoking butt in a pile of tinder-dry leaves. The nearest -house- was five miles away. LOL FIERY DEATH.

[XCashier]

I also get enraged when driving and I see sodas and fast food bags all over the road.

Yes, litter of any kind is unsightly. Some of it can even harm wildlife (animals have been strangled with those plastic 6-pack rings, for example).

[ADoyle90815]

This is a huge pet peeve of mine, as things are tinder dry in the summer, and there have been fires that were started when some idiot threw their cigarette butt out of the window. Another reason why I hate this is that the runoff from the streets ends up in the ocean eventually, so those cigarette butts are really bad for any wildlife that might eat one.

[Alteran Ancient]

It's bad enough just being dirty or inconsiderate, but odds are, you're driving on a ROAD, where OTHER CARS ARE! Every now and again, while a rarity, you're bound to come across some sort of spillage or leak of Diesel/Unleaded/LPG/Hydrogen or any other form of Fuel. All of the listed above, plus more are flammable/combustible! If you happen to drop your hot ashes in the right place, you're gonna have one heck of a mess on your hands!

There's actually a law in the UK that prohibits people from smoking in shared vehicles, or smoking without the consent of the passengers. At least, I think there is. If it were up to me, I'd ban smoking in cars out-right. Petrol + Cigarettes don't make a good combination!

[Pagan]

I've ranted about that before. I used to live in Arizona, which is hot and tinder-dry most of the year, and all it takes is some moron driving down the highway, tossing a still-hot cig butt out the window to start a raging wildfire. So yeah, folks, use your ashtray. If your car doesn't have one, you can get one from any auto parts shop for a few dollars.

This is exactly how some big fires have gotten started here.

On the funnier side, theres an ashtray in the back of the toilet doors in the airplanes our national airline uses..... which are all non-smoking flights.....

Go figure.

Well, since most of the planes were built before the no-smoking laws went into effect.

[Chromatix]

True, but also there needs to be a way to safely extinguish a fag that somebody has lit in the toilet despite all the signs and warnings telling them not to. The alternative is the wash-table, or the bin, or the toilet itself... none of which are good options (the toilet itself being the least bad, probably). I imagine that's one reason why ashtrays were at least not removed where they already existed.