I don't know the solution to this problem. I'm commenting on this scenario of law. More laws aren't the solution, but at least they will push the 90% of smokers away from the parks, and other public areas. There will always be the mischievous 10% "badass", and the'y get fined.
The problem is this doesn't apply to me, since I'm not a smoker, but the day a dumbass passes a law that inhibits my freedom of doing something, then I'll be mad.
But let's be serious for a second. They passed this law because of the litter. If you follow the logic from our own experience of people who smoke, you know it's because they are littering all over town, let's be fucking serious. Imagine, if all soda came in glass instead of plastic, and every time someone drank soda, they threw the glass bottles onto the ground shattering them. It's against the law to litter, but these motherfuckers are throwing glass on the ground. groups of them go outside to drink soda, and drop those glass bottles all over the ground. Imagine the glass in the parks, dogs, kids, all that glass. Kids stepping on the glass, dogs and birds eating the glass. Bike tires popping. It would make the experience of the park not worth it. And there is not enough patrol to catch these people. So they make a law, no more soda bottles made of glass in the park, or maybe in the whole city. That solves problem with the only tools they have at their disposal. If you can solve the problem another way, I would love it, but smokers can't figure out how to smoke and dispose of their cigarette butts themselves, so fuck em.
