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Nanny wants you to litter. No butts in the ashtray. Heck Nanny doesn’t want vehicles to have ashtrays

Maybe somebody has already come up with this –
Let’s call them “butt checks”

Throw the lit butts out the window.

Look for a large increase in wildfires…

Nothing I enjoy more than renting a “non-smoking” car (/hotel room) while on a trip and having to suffer through the lightly covered odors (odours in this case?) of its previous occupants. Can’t say I blame smokers for not wanting to be around other smokers’ residue either. And of course it was like that when they got there, too, right?

This enforcement puts some teeth behind a legitimate public health initiative. Swing and a miss on this one, Olson.

“This enforcement puts some teeth behind a legitimate public health initiative. Swing and a miss on this one, Olson.”
What James? Unless you are trying to convey sarcasm…

What is the public health concern that is sufficient to warrant the government snooping into private cars. The data for smoking causing direct harm to people outside the care are scant.
If someone smokes in a rental, then that should be a simple civil matter, charging their credit card for the few hundred dollar deep cleaning required. Do we really need the state to enforce with police and courts every detail of every little contract.

Not only that, James, but the fact that my hypothetical ashtray has hypothetical cigarette butts doesn’t even mean that I’m smoking in my hypothetical car… I could be stepping outside the car for a smoke and then putting the butts in my ashtray to avoid violating the littering laws.

There is no legitimate public health concern arising from the smoking of cigarettes in cars.

“The data for smoking causing direct harm to people outside the care are scant.”

I venture here to say non-existent.