No Smoking on the Playa?

[neccessity]

A wet dream! I personally would rather pick up someone else's cigarette butt.

[Natural Man]

A wet dream! I personally would rather pick up someone else's cigarette butt.

Ahh.... good humor. I like that ! :lol:

[neccessity]

heheh. good. glad to spread the glee.

[Cosworth Magellan]

Um... you guys do know that Larry Harvey is a chain smoker... right?

:)

[Natural Man]

Um... you guys do know that Larry Harvey is a chain smoker... right?

:)

Yes, What's the point. Larry isn't a god nor does he profess to be. I would hope he is more courteous that the vast majority of smoker with where he smokes and for sure with regards to where he throws his MOOP.

The notion of NO TRACE apply to all and the idea of common courtesy is vital to community. Larry would be "into it". If not he's a hypocrite, which I would prefer not to believe.

[safetythird]

I was looking for people who were gifting empty tins. I felt like a tard because I didn't have one on me. My altoid tin was packed somewhere in the RV and despite my best efforts I couldn't find it all week. I just let the cigs burn out and put them in my pocket. None of my butts hit the playa and I collected many extras (along with other litter). Still finding butts in the washer after washing playa clothes. Still haven't found the altoid tin either, I guess I need to finish unpacking the RV.

What I did have in the Monkey Lounge was a decorated coffee can for everyone's use. A week's worth of butts filled the damn thing up. Next year I'll make a couple of them since the can was always on the other side of the room from where I was sitting. Keep the lids on them. A can full of ashes and butts smells nasty.

One last note to non-smokers: I consider myself a considerate smoker and try not to let my smoke bother other people but when one of those "anti smoking nazis" tried to force people to smoke -outside- the Monkey Lounge (the nerve, it only had walls on 2 sides and it was MY lounge) I told her that is was a -smoking only- area and for the comfort and enjoyability of smokers, non smokers must leave or atleast take their non smoking outside. I didn't hear her bitch (about that, atleast) for the rest of the week.

Don't tell me about second hand smoke, do you have any idea what the hell you've been breathing out there? I saw the remains of a matress in a burn platform on Monday, I'm pretty sure that smoke was way nastier than anything that I've prefiltered.

S3

[Elliot]

Looks like this thread ran out of steam a while ago, but I just found it.

Please put me down as a non-smoker who eagerly supports efforts to help addicts break the "habit". I too have witnessed how powerfully addictive cigarettes are. But BM is a very powerful event....

(I read a while ago that the man who became rich by inventing the nicotine patch is still a chain smoker himself. Does that tell us something?)

[robbidobbs]

Handing a butt back to someone works. So does making a big show of picking them up.

At the pottie banks, I often will solicit help in demoopification, and I always get volunteers. As the week wears on however, I find that more tourists are in the audience, and they just stare.

[robotland]

I used to always be the one who lost track of his beer at parties and ended up drinking the "ashtray" one. I credit that memory with eventually helping me quit for good.

[Elliot]

Uff, now I have to clean the puke off my monitor.

But gosh, yes, that ought to do it! Glad you are a healthier person now, Howdy.

[dragonfly Jafe]

I used to always be the one who lost track of his beer at parties and ended up drinking the "ashtray" one. I credit that memory with eventually helping me quit for good.

I thought it was the duct tape over your mouth that did it...

[Bob]

Um... you didn't hear that smoking is banned this year? Read the JRS.