Dear Tobacco,

I got to go out for lunch today to do some errands at the bank. On the ride back to work I was in line for a red light and looked out beside the car to the beaten up grass median along the road.

It's bad enough that the grass growing in the median is clogged with weeds, salt, gravel, and exhaust, but it's also got to deal with you too. I was only briefly stopped, but in that time I saw:

• The outer shell of a pack of tobacco rolls
• The inner paper shell of the same pack
• The inner foil lining of one side of the pack
• Several old 'butts' leeching their way into the soil
• Some gum

Then I started thinking statistics again. How could I not when you were the dominant cause of the litter on the side of the road? For instance, one tobacco roll/cigarette results in a fairly tangible amout of waste... and I'm not even thinking that big of the picture. I'll show you what I mean:

25 smokes = 25 filters = 2 to 4 separate pieces of foil per pack = at least two separate pices of construction type paper to constuct the pack = one plastic pack wrapper + 8 wrappers from the carton + paper to construct the carton = 16 total wrapper paper pieces = at least 24 pieces of foil = 200 toxic leftover filters = a lot of pollution!

This doesn't take into account lighters, their packaging, bags stores give cartons in, receipt paper, matches, boxes, wrappers, and anything else disposed as a result of the consumption of you. Nor does it take into account the various types of waste incurred by other forms of you - like the little plastic tubs that smokeless come in.

It's funny how much physical waste you contribute to, and yet all we are left with is smoke.

Smoke, addiction, and nothing tangible other than litter. Lovely.