Fight Gangs, Not Cigarette Butts - And Response (3)

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

We have multiple shootings every single week in this city and yet our local and state officials are worried about smoking in the parking garage?

You people need to get a grip on reality and do something to stop these shootings and killings before you worry about cigarette butts.

Before you know it, the state will regulate when and where we can go to the bathroom. A tax on said act will most likely follow.

Ronnie "Rock" Land
rock@roadrashmag.com

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As a smoker I was just wondering? Aren't underground parking garages still built out of concrete? No fire on concrete.

When is enough enough?

Carlos Dempsey
Red Bank
bamafancd@comcast.net

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The ignorance of smokers never ceases to amaze me. Tax them to death before the butts get them.

Jim Varble

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I agree we should use our resources more effectively than checking on cigarette butts too. However, you sure don't want all those cigarette butts to end up in the rain water runoff or the rates for water treatment might skyrocket. Oh wait, they already did.

Here's an idea. Let's have the people that are looking for cigarette butts actually pick them up too. How many problems did that just solve?

Marty Fields


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