Cig. butts are nothing but some tobaco fragments and a little paper (wood)
Natural stuff that will decompose and be gone in a week. Some people should
give it a rest.
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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.

Umm, no. Actually the filter part of cigarrette butts is fiberglass that
will not decompose for years, and the "paper" is plasticized to the
point where it will also not degrade easily either.

... Some people should
give it a rest.

Some people (many, actually) should wake up.

DSK

Umm, no. Actually the filter part of cigarrette butts is fiberglass that
will not decompose for years, and the "paper" is plasticized to the
point where it will also not degrade easily either.

I wasn't including filtered cigs. I agree with the filter problem but if the
paper is "plasticized" then why does it burn like paper and not melt and stink
like burning plastic.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"No shirt, no skirt, full service"

SAIL LOCO wrote:
I wasn't including filtered cigs. I agree with the filter problem but if the
paper is "plasticized" then why does it burn like paper and not melt and stink
like burning plastic.

Sorry, that wasn't clear. I meant the part of the paper that's wrapped
around the filter. Try burning a cigarette filter some time, if you've
got a strong stomach.

DSK

DSK wrote:

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.


Umm, no. Actually the filter part of cigarrette butts is fiberglass that
will not decompose for years, and the "paper" is plasticized to the
point where it will also not degrade easily either.


Not always true. The cigs I used to smoke would burn if you lit the
filter... Maybe it was plastic or paper?

Cheers


... Some people should
give it a rest.


Some people (many, actually) should wake up.

DSK

"Navigator" wrote


The cigs I used to smoke would burn if you lit the
filter...

stupid is as stupid does.

stupid is as stupid does.


Scotty Potti's new Tattoo!

RB

DSK wrote:

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.


Umm, no. Actually the filter part of cigarrette butts is fiberglass that
will not decompose for years, and the "paper" is plasticized to the
point where it will also not degrade easily either.



I think if you do a little research you will find the "fiberglass-in-the-filter" to
be an urban myth, "Don't smoke brand X, they have fiberglass in the filter and you'll
die of some horrible lung desease!"; right, like lung cancer is not a 'horrible' lung
desease. Sheese.

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:
I think if you do a little research you will find the
"fiberglass-in-the-filter" to
be an urban myth,

Possibly, but a lot of them are made of some sort of spun ceramic. Which
is the same stuff as fiberglass even if you can't build a boat out of it.

Anyway they still don't decompose in a week like Loco said. I don't
believe the claim that it takes seven years, but at least a couple of
months seems likely.

..."Don't smoke brand X, they have fiberglass in the
filter and you'll
die of some horrible lung desease!"; right, like lung cancer is not a
'horrible' lung
desease. Sheese.

C'mon everybody knows it's genetics that determines whether you get cancer.

Regards
Doug King

"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.