Alan Woods added: "For most smokers, the priority is to stub out their butt safely which is why so many were keen on cig bins with ashtrays, where they could see their dog-end extinguished properly."
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council took the ciggie lobby's breath away this week when it prosecuted mum Tracey John for stubbing out a dog-end in the street outside her Pontypridd home - while she was talking to one of their wardens.
This week smarmy investment banker turned even smarmier Tory MP Mark Garnier (whose motto I'm guessing is "because I'm worth it") urged his party not to try to attract "dog-end voters" who live in "the outlying regions" of Britain.
You're the ones that turned schools into production lines for clone children, spouting answers in a tuneless monotone; you talk about imposing curfews on teenagers after eight o clock; make it as difficult as possible for people to open nightclubs or music venues because you don't want your peace interrupted; and you've built next to nothing in the way of new facilities for young people since you slouched down the same dog-end streets 30 years earlier,equally bored out of your skull.
A black girl from the dirt-poor Los Angeles ghetto, beaten by an even more poverty-stricken girl from the dog-end of Russia, who emigrated to America with nothing, in pursuit of a better life.
The 28-year-old is considering legal action after being caught discarding a dog-end in Hertford Street during a police-aided purge on litterbugs in the city centre last Thursday.