I will not be wasting time talking about the dangers of Tobacco to one’s health. Decades of surgeon general’s and cancer deaths of those we know and love should be enough to convince anyone that tobacco use – although extremely common – does not make sense.
Rather I want to simply point out some habits that are very common that simply don’t make any sense as it relates to tobacco use. Smokers always have to have a clean ashtray. Very common. Makes no sense.
Let me see if I understand the situation. You light up a cigarette and put a filthy amount of toxic air and pollutants into your lungs, you create ash as the cigarette burns which can hit the ashtray or some other surface and then you produce a nicotine and sometimes lip stick stained (female) cigarette butt which find a way into countless drains and landfills.
Simultaneously one produces air pollution as second hand smoke fills the air, dirt and filth as ashes fly everywhere and trash laden with germs as the butts lay everywhere. Not to mention the yellowing effect of the smoke on teeth, clothes, wall paint, ceiling tiles, and practically every surface that the smoke touches. A grand collection of filth spewing everywhere but for heaven’s sake all done with a clean ashtray!!!
There's Nothing Common About Making Sense 