Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
There is one single place above all where I would like to ban cigarettes: Hanging out a moving car window.

San Diego County is always in great danger from wildfires, especially around this time of year. Many of our big fires have been tracked back to a single cigarette butt on the side of a road. I live in a posted high-danger fire zone, so it is actually illegal to even smoke outside in my neighborhood. But I still see drivers hanging a lit smoke out the window, so they don't get their ash trays dirty. Invariably, those drivers just toss the still-lit butt when they are finished.

I wonder if a $1 per cigarette refundable deposit would encourage them to collect their butts in the ash tray?

I presume, pondering_it_all, that all outdoor open flames are banned in your high danger fire zone -- fireworks, lanterns, candles, charcoal grills -- not just cigarettes.

Since it is not the person's smoking within the confines of his privately owned vehicle that is the problem, but rather his littering and ignoring an across the board open flame ban in a high danger fire area by hanging his lit cigarette out the window, would you agree that as long as he confines his smoking (specifically in this case the open flame) to the interior of his private vehicle he is not violating the property rights or any other rights of those living in your high danger fire zone?
Yours,
Issodhos


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