[MR] Smokers' Tips (was trash-site cleanup)

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 07:53 AM 6/13/2007 -0700, vivianvaz at lairhaven.com wrote:
>And I see lots of smokers who "field dress" their
>butts (o.k. juvenile me thinks that sounds funny, but it's accurate)
>and carry butt cans or even decorative little pouches to put them in
>until they can be disposed of.  Please help your fellow smokers by
>letting them know where they can get those.

         I usually field-strip my cigarettes, which (for those one or two
of you who don't know) consists of extinguishing the coal, scattering
the tiny shreds of tobacco, and crumpling the paper into a microscopic
wad then scattering it too.  All biodegrades.  If there's a filtertip
remaining, then it can be easily carried away and disposed of in the
next convenient trash can.
         A cheap and period container for filtertiptips, or complete butts,
is a little leather pouch with a rawhide thong.  They cost 50 cents or
maybe as much as a buck, at Smoke and Fire or many other places.
These come in very handy for other things, too -- and they're cheap.
         An old Altoids tin, suitably refinished (burn the paint off, then
apply a different design) makes a fine portable ashtray, and I'd argue
is not blatantly OOP unless closely inspected.
-- Britton

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		- - Roy B. Scherer
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