I live in a country where smoking has generally been on the decline for a while now but even still I see thousands of cigarette butts in just about any public place. They litter the sides of the road, bus shelters, alleyways, outside clubs, bars and pubs, public toilets, park benches and just about everywhere else. Its even extending to disposable vapes now as well.
For the most part, where I live doesn’t have that much of other kinds of litter about and is generally clean. And most public bins and all smoking areas have ashtrays and dedicated cigarette bins so it wouldn’t be hard to dispose of them properly like any other piece of rubbish and even then there’s often cigarette butts within sight of the bins and ashtrays.
Why then do people have a completely different approach for cigarettes?
Nicotine apparently rots the brain. I was at a bar yesterday and there was a shelf over the urinals and as many bins for snus packets as there were urinals. The bins were labelled in multiple languages that they were for snus packets. They were really obvious. And there were still snus packets in the urinals.
I could probably Google, but what on earth is snus?
It’s a type of swedish smokeless tobacco that has seen popularity elsewhere. It is something like chewing tobacco in a miniature teabag. Health risks are likely lower than other forms of tobacco, based on current (limited) evidence, both due to the lack of combustion and manufacturing process (pasteurized rather than curing and fermentation) but it’s still addictive because of the nicotine and shows an increase in cancer incidence.
Apparently, Swedish snus also has higher bioavailability of nicotine than American due to pH and moisture content.
Apparently, disgusting fuckers in the previous comment were spitting the little “teabags” out on the shelf above the urinals or in the urinals (I’ve seen the later).
Smokeless tobacco placed under the lip for the nicotine to be absorbed by the gums. If you’re familiar with dipping tobacco (“dip”), it’s the same concept, but the tobacco is processed differently and is usually in little teabag-like pouches for convenience.
An attempt to make snuff cool again.