Harold Douse, 48,
dropped his cigarette butt in the grass as he headed to the beach along the lakefront near Lawrence Avenue.
Many non-smokers brush this danger off as it isn't a substance in their home, but if your pet is allowed outside at any time, it may encounter and consume
dropped cigarette butts.
Not exact matches
The council also formally added the
dropping of
cigarette butts on sidewalks to its anti-littering ordinance, punishable by a $ 50 fine.
On Saturday mornings, when the weekly commuters who usually rush in like blood have emptied out like a stomach and left only
cigarette butts scattered like piñata
droppings, I roam around thinking of the dead four hundred, passing the library and remembering it as a reservoir, not full of books but of water; I gather up anecdotes from when this neighborhood was something else.
Paintings of ketchup packets, her mother's handwritten notes, marionette dolls, expiration date stickers,
cigarette butts, price tags, laundry tags, and garden gnomes are interjected by oversized sculptures of gum
drops, matchsticks, a finger, a hospital bracelet, and bread loaf expiration tags.
And all the critical rants to the contrary, this Biennial is not without its ephemeral gestures to private emotions, including Kiki Smith's shower of glass tear
drops strewn before two transparent feet and lovingly titled Mother (1992 - 3); Jack Pierson's Diamond Life (1990), a sensitive hommage, with desk
cigarette butts and Joni Mitchell albums, to the slower moments of an emotional life in the 70s; Lari Pittman's intricately patterned paintings; Lorna Simpson's wonderful wall of trumpet mouthpieces that form part of her installation Hypothetical?