Cigarette Butt Crisis

The nuisances of having someone throwing a cigarette butt out the window of a car. Does it really create that much trouble? Some people might agree and some might. Others probably don't even think about it. The causes of someone throwing a butt out the window are easily recognizable. One cause comes from the ignorance showed by the person not to realize the consequences. Another cause for this lack of common decency, is the fact that the other person doesn't care or apathy. A final and important cause is the clear laziness shown by the person. But this paper is not about the causes I described but the effects of throwing a cigarette butt out an open window. The significance of the effects are much more important then the causes. The effects that I state in this paper are not the only effects, but ones that I have thought of so don't think that they are the only ones. Some of the effects are the littering aspects, the possibility of an accident and the enjoyment of pegging pedestrians.

One effect of throwing out a cigarette butt out a window of an automobile is the amount of litter that comes from this. The amount of cigarette butts on the road today out number the amount of drivers. When driving down the road the scenery is taken up with nothing but butts it tends to put a person down. The roadsides of America's street ways are littered with cigarette butts. With as much litter that is already on the road butts are not needed. The sad part about the whole ordeal is that the solution to the problem is quite easy. The solution is just to put a cigarette out in the ashtray given to people in cars.

A major effect of throwing butts out the window of a car is the possibility of causing an automobile accident. Imagine this situation. Someone is driving down the road

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comfortably following someone smoking his or her cigarette never thinking the possibility of getting into an accident. Next thing the person they notice the butt of the cigarette flying threw the air and right in their window of their car. All of a sudden the person reaches back to get the butt out and looses control of their car. Next thing you know, there is a twenty car pile up on a major high way. Police and fire trucks show up at the scene of an accident that could have been prevented. Precious time and money have been spent on an accident that should never have happened. Life's were lost that should have been spared. All these due to the fact that someone would not use their common sense and use the ashtray that car developers put in the car. Things like this could be avoided, but the effect of this leads back to the cause of ignorance.

Another effect from throwing butts out a window is the enjoyment received from pegging pedestrians with the butt. When someone is driving their car and happen to notice someone they