Hold on to your butts, but what about the box?

Sometimes, when I walk our dog Gracie, I pick up trash along the sidewalk. Today, I picked up what I thought was a yellow tea bag, only to discover it was a flattened yellow cigarette box. This is what it had printed on one side:

The cigarette butt is one of the most littered objects in the world. We ask that you help change that. Please hold onto your butts until you can dispose of them properly.

I looked around the sidewalk and grass.

No butts.

Clearly, the smoker had heeded the cigarette manufacturer’s directive to hold onto the butts and dispose of them properly. Chalk one up for ecological responsibility! Kudos to the manufacturer for working to stop litter!

Now if we can just get them to say something about the box the butts came in, we might really be getting somewhere, don’t you think?

(Really, I do NOT make this stuff up.)