Well, here goes......I smoke and flip my butts in the river....always have. The butts get torn up by the river and are gone in short order.....unlike lost corkies, plugs, spoons, spinners, and nearly all other varieties of lures.

So in my opinion....you are being a lot ridiculous. I don't, by the way, flip my butts on the ground, I don't smoke in the house, and I won't blow smoke in your face. But I ain't packing out cigarette butts.

You want to jump on something....try beer bottles/cans and bait containers. Or just plain fishing line.

In your behalf, I will say that I had one young game warden tell me to pick up a butt that I had flipped in the river. I said, "What?" He said, "I'm sorry. It's just a pet pieve of mine." I said, "It sure is!" So it just goes to show that there are others in your arena.

I ain't likely to change, and likely neither are you. It would be a shame if we couldn't fish together, though.