Butt Me No Butts

The other day I was driving down the road and as I slowed to a stop, the car in front of me stopped. The driver then proceeded to roll down his window, took one last hit off his cancer stick, and ejected the still smoldering cigarette butt onto the pavement.

By this time, I was smoldering as well. It's not bad enough that we're bombarded with cigarette filth in front of stores, outside restaurants, and even in the great outdoors, but to see people blatantly disregarding the law and violating our environment at the same time makes me want to puke. No one does thing about it.

And when irresponsible smokers jettison their spent cigs along highways, the end result is too often catastrophic wildfires that cost millions of dollars in property loss, destroyed natural resources and sometimes lives. What a tragedy! All because smokers are too lazy or thoughtless to use the ashtray in their vehicles.

I'm proposing the increase of smoker littering to $5,000. We can use already installed red light cameras to help nab the offenders. Or maybe something a little more unconventional would work. How about this? What if we can pay school kids to use their cell phone cameras to catch littering smokers! Wouldn't it be something to have thousands of little private detectives helping to rid our society of this phenomenon?

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!