PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION IDEA: URGE CONGRESS TO IMPOSE A LITTER-DISPOSAL FEE ON EACH AND EVERY TOBACCO-PRODUCING COMPANY THAT SELLS ANY OF ITS PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES

It's an alarming fact of American life today that each year, billions of cigarette butts and cigarettes and cigarette packages get tossed onto the ground by American citizens and visitors to the United States without proper disposal of those items in a trash can or discarded-cigarette-butts bin designed  exclusively for that purpose.

This "trashing of America" that millions of Americans participate in only adds to the lowering of pride in our nation---both on the part of current residents of the U.S. and on the part of visitors to the U.S.

Also alarming is the fact that many of those used cigarettes and cigarette butts that get tossed onto the ground or tossed into a shrub are still lit, and can ignite a grass fire or fire to a building or person.

My environmental-protection-minded and fire-prevention-minded Progressive Prohibitionist Religion maintains that the tobacco industry in the United States should contribute financially toward improved and expanded litter-disposal services in each and every one of the 50 states of this country.

It is my hope that the U.S. Congress will hold committee hearings at the earliest opportunity to address this public-policy issue.

At the state level, possibly some of the more enlightened state legislatures can approve legislation that imposes a special additional sales tax on cigarette packages being sold in that state, with revenues from that additional sales tax being earmarked exclusively for litter-control and litter-disposal services in that state.

In this and other ways, the "Trashing of America" that cigarette smokers currently inflict on our nation's urban scenery with appalling frequency, can finally be stopped.