campsites and smoking

Full agreed! Even I am a smoker. Pick up your butt please.

As one of the filthy brigade (smokers), I find it reprehensible that my fellow smokers seem to think they have some right to to throw their butts anywhere they like.

Cig butts are as much rubbish as drink cans or left over newspapers. Why can't these dills bin them? I am amazed at how many butts are stomped out within a few feet of a rubbish bin.

Jim.

John,
As a caravan park owner I can only concur with you. It is most embarrassing to show a customer to a caravan or camp site and find that it is littered with butts.
If I told you that we pick up at least 100 a day most people would think I was exaggerating. But I can assure that I am not.
As expected, most smokers do the right thing. To those who don't, give us a go, despite what you may think we do have other things to do. Like keep the pool clean for you.
Roo Boy

Its a sad fact that most smokers don't see throwing a smoke out the window as littering. Or the ones who smoke outside city buildings and butt their cigarettes out with their shoe and just go back inside.

Got to be the filthiest habit their is.

My solution $50 first offence, $500 for a second offence and so on.

(ex smoker)

If I see someone throw a butt, I tell them...we all should do the same. I was stopped at the lights the other day and saw a lit bumper come out of the drivers window in front of me...I got out, picked it up and handed it back to the stunned driver. I received a heap of car horns for my effort.

I do it all the time when I see someone throw a bumper...

I HATE 'EM

I am an ex smoker.

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Yep, me too.

Im a heavy smoker, always carry those cheap portable self-extinguishing ashtrays.
So simple and easy.

Now.....bottle caps......thats one that gets me on a soapbox.

Cheers.....Lionel.

As an ex smoker I agree with all those saying it's a filthy habit and I was probably as thoughtless as other smokers are now. It's the cause of many fires and here in WA during the Summer it's not unusual for smouldering fires to be seen on the centre reservation approaches to traffic lights obviously from fag butts.
Give it up before it's too late smokers, although it's well over 30 years since I did I'm now suffering from lung disease probably from too many fags long ago.
Younger bro is the same, stuffed lungs with Emphysema (sp?) and our old man died at 52 because of it.
And we still never learnt!
Alan.

All smokers should be forced to take their anti-social, selfish and intrusive habit outside the park all together.

They can stand on the footpath along with their mates at the pubs and clubs.

If smokers find this offensive, sorry, too bad, I find smoking offensive in places like caravan parks and camping areas.

Maybe caravan parks need to start banning smokers like hotels and clubs

on a recent visit to fraser island i had the kids going around our campsite picking up the glow sticks they had left lying around on the ground. also decided was a good time to get them cleaning up ciggie butts left by previous campers, after 5 minutes i gave up on the ciggie butts cause we would have been there all day and half of the next i reckon.

Isn't that why we drink alcohol when we go camping??? once the bottle or can is empty, there is your ash tray!

I know people that use their own gardens/potplants/yards as ashtrays. If they do it at home, what hope of them not doing it when camping?