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[Chaucer]

I've always thought Korea took the cake for cigarette butt littering, but some friends say it's worse in Britain, some say France.

Seems pretty awful here, especially at the bus stops.

And I haven't had the experience anywhere but in Korea of the still-smoldering cigarette butt careering back at me from a car ahead, but then I haven't driven anywhere but here and the US.

Thoughts?

[djsmnc]

Where I live back home, there was a time a few years back when the state government took prisoners off of highway cleanup for awhile because a prisoner had been hit by a car during work detail. For the 3-4 months that the policy was in effect, the highway literally looked like a giant ashtray and garbage dump. I think any country in which there is no proper cleanup will have the same situation, be it on highways, city streets, or sidewalks.

[shinramyun]

hong kong, china, france, you name it.

[itaewonguy]

and the governments sure love to produce those cigarettes though don't they.. those harmless substance! they don't hurt anyone or anything now do they.. those poor little cigarettes.. ooops I mean those tax cash cows..

[crossmr]

Where I lived in Canada it was pretty bad. LRT platforms, in front of stores, around parks, it was all over the place and thick.

I always said they could have hired 20 more officers whose job was to do nothing but hand out littering tickets and they'd pay their own salary several times.

[lifeinkorea]

In Japan, I saw this a lot. Everyone made a conscious effort throw trash away, bag wrappers, and put everything in its proper place. This was in Korea, where they have various kinds of bags you have to use to make the process smooth as possible. With all this going on, cigarette butts could be just thrown on the ground. Usually in the morning after rush hour, they would have street cleaners come around the sweep up all the cigarette butts.

It's definitely not the dirtiest country, but I don't see Koreans do this as much what I witnessed in Japan.

[Wangja]

With smoking banned in buildings, the only place to smoke is outside, which becomes a huge ashtray.

And pubs smell of the great unwashed.

[Rusty Shackleford]