"SAIL LOCO" wrote
Cig. butts are nothing but some tobaco fragments and a little paper (wood)
Natural stuff that will decompose and be gone in a week. .....

Ahhh, if that were only true, but most smokers use filter-tipped cigarettes
and those gawd damn filters are forever.

So there's the answer - ban the filters! As Loco says, the rest is
biodegradable.