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Monday, January 31, 2022

First they try to get them to quit smoking because it's hazardous to your health, then they want to outlaw filters...

AUBURN (CBS13) — Sally Dawley, better known as the “Auburn Butt Lady,” has spent eight years picking up cigarette butts littered on the ground.

“Ten different days since I have started, I have picked up over 3,000 butts in one day,” Dawley explained.

For Dawley, the burned butts are not only a concern for the environment but to animals as well.

10 comments:

  1. Completely off topic: neither bing nor duck duck go will find your website when knuckledraggin is used for a search. Brave search did come through though.

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    1. Indeed, I also searched and used "Knuckledraggin my life away" and also only got other blogs. Both Bing and DDG, Brave is the first result. (Hence why Brave is my default.) Yandex also pops positive with the first result (both links).

      Baidu has some links with the old URL, I don't typically use that search much.

      -arc

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  2. While they are at it, maybe they could address all that toxic pollution created by discarded masks? CA assclowns.

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  3. Those filters are pretty unsightly, I don't want them tossed into my yard. That's why I smoked the non filter Camel for my death wish.
    Daryl

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    1. I smoked Pall Mall non-filter from 1984 until they quit making them 2 years ago. Now I'm smoking Pyramid Kings non-filter. Do any other brands produce them any more?

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  4. This is a problem entirely the fault of inconsiderate smokers. Why do so many cigarette smokers think that they are exempt from anti-littering laws? Most of those filters are made of plastic fibers that take a decade to decompose. No one should get to trash the planet merely because they refuse to control their addictions.

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  5. I smoke non-filter cigarettes with no added chemicals. [1] Filters are just making you suck particles into your lungs, wrinkle your lips and give you headaches; [2] you can smoosh them out with your foot and leave no harmful or ugly crap on the ground; [3] they taste better as soon as you learn to drag very lightly on them.

    I don't really care much about cigarette butts littering the streets of towns, but they do irk me in the forest or on the beach, and I can't seem to control myself from finding some sort of container and picking them up to dump in a trash can.

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  6. I agree with MeatPopsicle. Smokers are their own worst enemy. Pull up to any stop sign around here and look to the left side of the road and you will see hundreds of discarded butts.

    As a non-smoker, I vehemently disagreed with the war on tobacco. However, every time I see this, or see a smoker flip his *lit* cigarette out the window, I think "Use your effing ashtray, asshole." And if I were a cop, he'd get pulled over for it.

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  7. She's depriving birds of a way to protect their nests from parasites. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2138655-birds-use-cigarette-butts-for-chemical-warfare-against-ticks/ and https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11952

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  8. Some contractors left a few butts in the road in the back of the farm but I'm not one to pester contractors over stuff like that. They worked hard and did a great job; went above and beyond what was required of them. I just came along later and picked the butts up.

    I spotted one more butt that I need to pick up, those buggers don't rot down into the soil since it's been a few months. The smoker did drop a lighter for me but I got that earlier, karma.

    -arc

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