• Did you ever accidentally set your pants on fire or melt a hole through polyester? This is a real question, by the way, I have no idea whether cigarette butts are still burninating when you’re done with them.

      • NABDad@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Just urinate on the butt before you put it in your pocket. It’s still less nasty than throwing it on the ground.

        I’m not a smoker. I never have been. I’ve always been amazed that smokers somehow managed to get society to look the other way at such blatant littering.

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        10 hours ago

        Not the commenter, but you roll the burning part off. The remaining tobacco burns into ash and there’s no (real) littering. It is a form of pollution, but it sort of blows away.

      • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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        10 hours ago

        Usually, I would squat down, press it against the concrete to put it out, then wait for a few seconds to make sure it’s not glimmering any more, then put it in my back pants pocket.

        EDIT: And to give an actual answer - thankfully, it never happened, but I guess there is a very small but technically non-zero risk :D