Ashtrays Collecting

Everyone has seen that airplane bathrooms still have ashtrays, despite smoking being banned on flights for almost a generation now. Engineering Infrastructures For Humans has a great blog post explaining why (spoiler: because some people will still smoke). Even greater … Continue reading →  

#airplanes You can't smoke on airplanes. For many reasons—both social and safety-related—that's a great idea, even if it does make some people a little cranky over long flights. So why the hell do they install ashtrays in the toilets? More »  

Matt Simmons, who writes the Standalone Sysadmin blog, has been wondering why there are ashtrays in airplane toilets, even though you aren't allowed to smoke anywhere on or near an airplane, and you haven't been allowed to do so for quite some time. It turns out that airplane toilet ashtrays are mandatory: "Regardless of whether [...]  

The National Fire Protection Association developed the following tips for safe storage and disposal of cigarettes: • Whenever you smoke, use deep, wide, sturdy ashtrays. • Ashtrays should be set on something sturdy and difficult to ignite, l ...  

BEND, Ore. -- A fire that officials traced to a coffee can used as an ashtray ignited the front porch of a mobile home north of Bend Tuesday afternoon, prompting several people to wield garden hoses and help save the home until firefighters arrived.  

Santa Cruz, California- March 30, 2012- Perfect gift ideas for golfers, executives, fathers, and to all cigar lovers have finally been offered in a handy and adorned gift box. Ci-Garage proudly introduces its Portable Cigar Ashtray & Saver with Cutter—a ...  

Vermont State Police say an Orleans man is facing aggravated domestic assault charges that he hit a family member in the head several times with a wooden ash tray, causing life-threatening injuries. Twenty-year-old Brandon Carbo was arrested following the ...  

(AP) — Vermont State Police say an Orleans man is facing aggravated domestic assault charges that he hit a family member in the head several times with a wooden ash tray, causing life-threatening injuries. Twenty-year-old Brandon Carbo was arrested ...  

A Rock Hill woman was arrested after she threw an ashtray at her boyfriend and stood on the front lawn of their home yelling that he had a disease, police say. Alexandria Green, 50, was charged with criminal domestic violence, according to a ...  

The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque -- a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that visitors cringe.  

The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque - a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe.  

By: Bradleigh ChanceAshtrays close to campus buildings removed in September after U. Senate vote After university facilities officials removed a large number of ashtrays set near campus buildings this past fall, some students have complained the measure has forced smokers to litter as discarded cigarette butts pile up all over the campus. ...  

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. - The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque — a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe.  

One Main Street bar replaced its ashtrays with bowls of popcorn in hopes of keeping customers from needing their cigarette fix after Evansville's citywide smoking ban went into effect April 1.  

Things come to mind all of the time and I thought I would share a question with all of you that I thought of today. What do you put in your vehicles Ash Tray? Since no one smokes in our family . . .