Electronic Cigarettes A Tidy Alternative to Smoking?
Walking through the streets of my local town earlier, I noticed something that seems to have become an increasing problem in the last couple of years. Litter…its a personal bugbear of mine and something that the UK has struggled with for as long as I can remember. For a so called civilised nation to have such an appalling problem is nothing short of, well, appalling!
What does this have to with electronic cigarettes? I am getting there, bear with me. The ban on smoking in public places has caused a litter problem all by itself. Okay, so there have always been a certain amount of cigarette stubs littering the countrys streets and pavements, adding and increasing to the eyesore. Whatever happened to Keep Britain Tidy?
However, the smoking ban had another trick up its sleeve, namely to send all smokers of pubs up and down the nation onto the street. Often right onto the towns high streets and next door to shops and stores. Its not smokers fault of course, they are merely going where they have been sent but I walked past one pub today and there was quite literally a carpet of dirty, used cigarette stubs on the pavement! Not to mention the slalom course one has to take to weave in and out of all those enjoying their cigarette.
On another street there was a line of dustbins, on the top of which was piled several inches of yet more cigarette stubs. Now, I must clarify that these particular bins had been designed with a little metal bit at the top to enable smokers to put out their cigarettes before depositing them inside the bin. Basically the whole thing is very unsightly and a definite problem.
What can be done? Well, here is the electronic cigarette bit! Electronic cigarettes have no stub to put out, there is no flame and no smoke and after the user has vaped, they can simply put the e cig back into their pockets and carry on. Just imagine for a moment if you would, the implication this would have on our towns and cities if this product with outstanding potential was to really take off and replace tobacco cigarettes.
Electronic cigarette users could all stay inside the pub and not only would the pub not need ash trays but they would not need to send all the smokers outside into the cold and in turn they wouldnt have to go and sweep the street clear of dirty cigarette stubs when they closed.
Needless to say the electronic cigarette conundrum poses much food for thought.
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