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Just a quickie, turns out that sleeping bags filling and the ciggie filters are made out the same stuff.
I propose that ciggie filters get their own recycle bin, and people can make their own sleeping bags.
Presumably putting them through a washing machine might be for those of a delicate nose,
while the more macho can get Old Tar barrel ( suitable for resurfacing roads).
Not a single butt joke, I must be getting boring
The Last Smoking Seagoon
http://www.thegoons...ast_smoking_seagoon
The appaling story of the unprincipled and exploitative Imperial Ascot Tobacco Company [8th of 7, Sep 09 2020]
New Scientist
https://www.newscie...icks/#ixzz6Xe7twg8Y
Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks [not_morrison_rm, Sep 10 2020]
Nature, got to be amazed
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAFvIWLFUz1/
Trial and error is always hard at work. [wjt, Sep 13 2020]
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In related news several birds use cigarette butts in their nests, as they tend to kill parasites. |
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Better yet; just stop manufacturing cigarettes completely,
and use the material fresh to make sleeping bags.
I'm at a loss to understand how tobacco companies are still
around. Yes, other things will kill you just as effectively as
cigarettes, but the vast majority ALSO have a benefit (the
killing is an unfortunate occasional side-effect). Cigarettes
(etc) kill you slowly; that's all they do. End them all. |
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Yeah, sorry... my anno should have finished with an "</end
rant>" tag... |
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The question isn't whether cigarettes are good, or whether people should use them. The question is whether the government should forbid them. My own answer is a resounding "no", and not just because I enjoy the occasional cigar. |
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Firstly, prohibition doesn't work in general. |
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Secondly, we already have way too many items the government tries to stop us from having or using. |
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Thirdly, laws against tobacco are particularly unenforceable. Weed anyone? |
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Governments should not interfere in people doing stupid self-harmful things, as long as they harm only themselves. |
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Ban smoking in places where others are forced to inhale it? Yes. |
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Ban smoking in private ? No. |
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Where does it stop ? Ban barbecues because the pyrolysed hydrocarbons in the smoke are actually more dangerous than tobacco ...? |
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Lowering availability and increasing the end cost of certain
types of tobacco (cigarettes for instance) has shown to
reduce smoking. On the other hand, lowering cost and
increasing availability for certain international markets (Kim
Jong in North Korea springs to mind) may have a desired
opposite effect. |
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I think that if you used a sleeping bag as the filter of a cigarette, the cigarette would be unwieldily humungous. You would probably have to use a mechanical suction plant to suck it, and the exhaust from the suction machine would be quite dangerous for the smoker i.e. they would be blasted by a prodigious cloud of smoke piped directly into their lungs. They might even inflate a little. The business end of the monstrous cigarette would also be something of a fire hazard. |
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Prior Art (and classic comedy) <link> |
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SEAGOON: [Over orch.] "Thank you [sucks] I say, this cigarette’s all filtered with a tobacco tip" |
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Ahem..
Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks linky |
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They'd better hope the UN weapons inspectors don't find out ... |
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A glancing bit of partial knowledge is that there is a species fungi that can digest the cigarette butt. Not what is wanted in an unprotected environment sleeping bag. |
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Clean collection is a large behavioural hill to climb. |
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