[SR28509]

I smoke. Sometimes I flick my cigarette butt into the street just to see how far I can make it go. I love smoking, and getting rid of the butt is not my primary concern. I don’t litter in any other way, and sometimes I stub my cigarettes out on the side of a trash can and throw it away (it depends on my mood). I’m contradictory. I throw butts down and then go home to clean jars to be recycled. I put gum wrappers in my pockets. I think throwing butts down is just a learned behavior – nearly all smokers do it. Ridiculous as it is, I think it’s somehow a more socially acceptable form of littering. If the butts didn’t smell so disgusting, I’d put them in my pocket. I would like to think they are biodegradable, though I believe they probably are not. I have told myself that littering is the same as throwing things away – the only difference is that official trash gets buried in a landfill and we can’t see it. I don’t know if that’s great logic, but it works for me right now. I would never empty an ashtray into the street, though I don’t know why I wouldn’t. That seems like deliberate laziness, whereas throwing a butt down is simply careless.

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Name : SR28509, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 21, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, 

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