{"id":330,"date":"2008-11-14T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=330"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:56:54","slug":"an-end-to-the-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"An end to the butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\">\n<div style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Pety.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0px 4px;\" title=\"Niedopalek papierosa\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c8\/Pety.jpg\/202px-Pety.jpg\" alt=\"Niedopalek papierosa\" width=\"162\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As I walked across the incredibly littered campus today, it occurred to me that what the world needs is a deposit on cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Charge a deposit of a quarter per cigarette (or the worldwide equivalent).\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to avoid paying the deposit, you have to bring in 20 butts per pack.\u00c2\u00a0 Whoever collects the taxes on cigarettes would provide retailers with appropriate containers and empty them out periodically.<\/p>\n<p>Just think how fast the ground would be de-littered if the butts were actually worth something.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked across the incredibly littered campus today, it occurred to me that what the world needs is a deposit on cigarettes. Charge a deposit of a quarter per cigarette (or the worldwide equivalent).\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to avoid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}