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bananaprincess
01/12/09

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In the towns round here lots of shops give away old film plastic holdy things, the round ones about the size of a large coin? for people to put their butts out. Mainly to stop tourists throwing butts on the beach.
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MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
01/12/09

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Good. What's really kooky about smoking there, though, is the way they're slowly going about banning it. There are sections of Tokyo (namely Shinjuku and Chiyoda wards) where you can't smoke on the street. Smoking outside has been banned wholesale in Osaka. They may have since amended that, but what a step to take! You can still smoke in restaurants, though. Cafes, bars, anyplace like that is kosher. Hotel rooms are OK too. You get a little ashtray by your bed. Cigarette vending machines? You bet. Cheap smokes, too. In the no-smoking areas, people have opened up little smoking parlors that you can just walk into and do your thing.

I totally make it a point to pretend it's the 70s and smoke in restaurants when I go to Japan. It's fun.
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Mrs. Jones
01/12/09

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Ugh, smoking is so GROSS. Bad for your bank account, bad for the environment, bad for your health. Good for all those Philip Morris execs!
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Scout
01/12/09

@Mrs. Jones: not really "good" for any tobacco company - given they have been sued over and over (mostly frivolous lawsuits) and all that money goes towards many un-related research projects across the country AND further, the taxes on the cigarettes are 1) outrageous 2) take money from the poor and 3) are more than any profit the tobacco companies make

I'd rather see the lawsuit money and taxes go towards "nicotine stamps" - which would be like food stamps - you could buy ONE pack of cigs or TEN packs of nick patches/gum so that those who want to quit could do so inexpensively

*for the record, I'm a non-smoker but I don't believe it my right to tell anyone not to smoke

**smoking is quite a bit less damaging (on many levels) than drinking and yet you'd be hard pressed to paint people who drink as villainous as smokers ... think about it
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Maulleigh
01/12/09

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I guess that's good. But gosh do ashtrays STINK. How difficult is it to just rub it on the bottom of your shoe and carry it to a trashcan?
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EkaterinaBallerina
01/12/09

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I hate hate hate that the streets and just about everywhere else are covered in cigarette butts. How hard is it to throw one out in a trash can? At my college, there would be piles upon piles AROUND the special stands they had for tossing them. Seriously.
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bananastand
01/12/09

@EkaterinaBallerina: Yeah, we have cigarette butt stands outside my office, but I think only 10% of the office's smokers use them.
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hfree
01/12/09

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This so much better than what Emma Thompson did in "Stranger than Fiction"! (she put the butts out in tissues that she had spit in)
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
01/12/09

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I just do like David Sedaris and put the extinguished butt in the cuff of my trou. A drawback to my method is that I forget sometimes. Butts in the laundry is no good. I'll be standing in line at the store and notice that the persons in my immediate vicinity will start looking around sniffing, trying to locate the source of the dryer-sheets mixed with warm, brown filter smell. Yeah, it's me.
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margareita metermaid
01/12/09

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My favorite bizarre Japanese product is a cup men (i guess women, too, but it's marketed for men) can pee into that has a chemical inside that turns urine to gel for handy disposal. Where are the supposed to pee into this? The subway?
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margareita metermaid
01/12/09

@reita1: *they
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Bunsen Honeydew
01/12/09

@reita1: Why would you need that?
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margareita metermaid
01/12/09

@Bunson.: Exactly...that's the beauty of so many Japanese vending machine products.
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Bunsen Honeydew
01/12/09

@reita1: Fair point.
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hatepaperdoll
01/12/09

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I hope this works better than my invention, "Just Ash It In Your Existing Pocket". So many needless pant fires, so many tragedies...
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AuntieBee
01/12/09

@hatepaperdoll: Well, don't stop making it. I buy your product just for the pocket fires. They invigorate me.
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lurkystars
01/12/09

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Personal, pocket/purse sized ashtrays have been around since the cigarette holder. The one's from the 30's and 40's and such are so much prettier.

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But yes, I'm sure they stink no matter what.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
01/12/09

@lurkystars: they have ash-trays in cars but yet the person in front of me on the highway (at night) always has to toss the butts out of the car and then i have a momentary freak-out while there are sparks flying at my face
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shewar
01/12/09

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Oh to live in a litter free world. My neighborhood is strewn in all kinds of garbage. Some people just will never truly care, nifty inventions or not.
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morninggloria
01/12/09

@shewar: I have these neighbors in the next building over who are always having big, obnoxious barbecues during the summer (not even in the yard of their own building, on the grass in between the sidewalk and the street, which is super tacky and disruptive). They always litter all over the place and never bother to pick it up the next day. In Chicago, you can dial 311 for non-emergencies (like you notice a broken fire hydrant or a car is blocking your driveway or something) and I call the city on my neighbors at least once a week for their messiness. I'm such a crabby old lady.
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AuntieBee
01/12/09

@shewar: Seriously, I find it troubling that I see less and less garbage cans around the city. I understand better why people litter when I walk for ten blocks holding onto a sticky piece of garbage because I can't see a receptacle anywhere.
My purse is literally full of trash.
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morninggloria
01/12/09

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Shit, this renders my side job completely unnecessary. For extra cash during these tough economic times, I've been offering to eat people's cigarette butts for a dollar. Now what am I going to do?
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
01/12/09

@morninggloria: Offer to clean crack pipes with your tongue?
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BearDownCBears
01/12/09

@morninggloria: There are too many people in this world who get paid to be ash-holes anyway.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
01/12/09

@morninggloria: See, I always swallowed for free. But that's why I'm a dirty whore.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
01/12/09

@BearDownCBears: Butt somebody has to do it.
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morninggloria
01/12/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes: Where in God's Green Goodness have you been?!?!
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
01/12/09

@morninggloria: Vacation from you harpies!!

Actually, sniff, I missed you all! But I was where the wireless internets do not dwell and where the Fox News creeps about all day, waiting to bite you and infect you with fair and balanced nonsense!
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morninggloria
01/12/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes: I would have had a fair and balanced nervous breakdown.

Hope you had a good time :)
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
01/12/09

@morninggloria: I did actually - Dad just Tivo'd most of his Faux News and I watched the Food Channel with Mummy :) We're not a yelly, arguing family so it's all good.
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BearDownCBears
01/12/09

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A real smoker swallows the butt when s/he's done, but I guess we're just a nation of wusses now.
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morninggloria
01/12/09

@BearDownCBears: GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
01/12/09

@BearDownCBears: A REAL smoker doesn't use filters.
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musicpup
01/12/09

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I, for one, appreciate this. It keeps my beloved Golden/walking trash can from trying to eat cigarette butts off the ground.
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EvieB
01/12/09

@musicpup: Ha! What is it about dogs and cigarette butts?

My dog prefers to just snatch lit cigarettes out of people's hands.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
01/12/09

@EvieB: Well, me, I sometimes put them out ON my dog. He's got thick fur, and sometimes it smolders, but really he doesn't seem to mind.
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musicpup
01/12/09

@EvieB: Seriously, I just can't imagine they taste good enough to eat. And people look at me all weird when I'm scandalized when she does it. "LENA! DROP IT. NOW. BAD DOG."
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KrisP
01/12/09

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My Oma has a very similar contraption but it's a small spherical object with a swivel lid. It contains the smell quite well!
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cuteasabutton
01/12/09

@KrisP: I know this is off topic but... you have an Oma too! My Oma is dead now, but I have never heard anyone else say that. OK Im done now...
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musicpup
01/12/09

@cuteasabutton's got ham but she's not a hamster.: My Oma is dead, too. It's just the way to address your German-born grandparent, damnit!
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cuteasabutton
01/12/09

@musicpup: It's weird because she wasn't German, rather she went to a boarding school run by German nun's in the country she lived in...Anyway carry on!
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cuteasabutton
01/12/09

@musicpup: And this is going to sound bad but my family is half asian and half european so we had a lot of names to remember...
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musicpup
01/12/09

@cuteasabutton's got ham but she's not a hamster.: I'll believe it. I come from a small family, but one of my friends is from Südtirol (North Italy, formerly Austria) and a family reunion involves hundreds of people. I was also a little squicked out when we walked through several villages and she kept pointing to this or that house and said, "OH, they're related to us, too!"
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