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Most smokers are assholes and genuinely don't care about stomping a butt and the city is too cheap and scared of homeless people to put out more ashtrays and garbage cans and hire more workers.
I was in the city this weekend and finding a place to put my butt was a hassle the few times I smoked away from my hotel, which did have an ashtray. You'd think they would have those disposal things attached to every bus stop but they don't.
No because smoking is illegal everywhere in a city.
Can't smoke on a sidewalk, at a bus stop or within three meters of a doorway or building vent. I guess you could stand in the middle of the street?
And this is why people don't care. There's like 3 places theyr allowed to be and they're treated like pariahs so they just say "fuck it, everyone already hates me anyway."
There are a lot of parallels to be drawn between smokers and any other addict and the problems that it brings to society. But no one has compassion unless your addiction has put you on the street.