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My friend if you are serious please may sure you carry a lot of insurance to pay for your surviving family.
Why? Richard Tontarski, ATF forensic fire investigator wanted to see if all these "accidental" fires with "spilt" gas were actually happening.
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He and colleagues experimented. They dropped burning cigarettes into trays of petrol. They sprayed a fine mist of petrol at a lighted cigarette. They even used a vacuum device to produce the higher temperature (900-950C) of a cigarette being sucked. In more than 2,000 attempts the petrol did not ignite.
They stopped putting ashtrays in cars in the past years, which IMO is a big part of the problem.
That has almost nothing to do with it. Smokers have been tossing butts since the opportunity existed. Many smokers will tell you that they don't want the mess in their car, ironically, so having an ashtray is irrelevant to them. There are no trash cans in cars but (most) people don't throw their junk out of the window. If people agree that tossing butts is littering they would find a way to not do it.
On an off topic note, what effects do the tens of billions of cigarettes smoked daily have on the environment?
I have quit, but when I was a smoker, I never threw my butts out of a car, or dropped them on the ground. I lived for many years in Colorado, which is a very dry state and fires alongside the highways were not uncommon, started by tossed-out cigarettes.
I hate to see butts (or any other litter for that matter) being tossed out of cars or dropped on the ground.
I was driving in Mexico and saw the guy in front of me flick his butt out the window. The entire field on the left erupted in flames, and it started a massive, out-of-control fire. People are idiots.
Well the butts stink AND they need the ash tray for change for parking and road tolls. SO WHAT would you have these IMPORTANT PEOPLE do with their butts??
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Another thread in which middle class neo-Puritans make a public display of their virtue. Go back to cheating Indians and flogging Quakers.
I am really sorry if you didn't sense the sarcasm there!!
Yep, it is a pet peeve of mine. These idiots don't know WHERE the hot ember will land and they don't care.
What if it goes into someones open window? What if it blows back on a biker behind them? I remember the severe drought we had in Tennessee a few years back. You would see "burn areas" along the interstate where smokers flicked out a butt and started a grass fire.
I d some walking on my road which is very quiet (one & 1/2 lane country road) which makes it attractive to the drunks. One idiot has been stopping and emptying his/her entire ashtray on the road. It is commendable that they USE their ashtray but they are pigs for dumping the contents in a pile on my road.
I can't remember the last time that I saw someone throw a cigarette out of a car window. I do see piles of butts where people have emptied an ashtray. I don't understand why anyone would do that in the parking lot of a convenience store when there is a trash receptacle just a few feet away.
I can't remember the last time that I saw someone throw a cigarette out of a car window. I do see piles of butts where people have emptied an ashtray. I don't understand why anyone would do that in the parking lot of a convenience store when there is a trash receptacle just a few feet away.
When the weather is appropriate for open windows I see an average of at least one a day throw their butt out the window.
When I smoked I always used a pop can, when it got full I threw the whole can away.
It bothers me too but why tell people to put their cigarette butts in their ashtray when they can toss it out the window.
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Well the butts stink AND they need the ash tray for change for parking and road tolls. SO WHAT would you have these IMPORTANT PEOPLE do with their butts??
I am really sorry if you didn't sense the sarcasm there!! 
