Sticking it to Smokers Again. How Original.

I knew something like this would happen eventually.
I figured someday the anti-smoking Nazis were going to come after us all for this. Their solution, of course and as usual, is to punish all smokers because some are inconsiderate slobs.
I am a smoker, and I have long been as disgusted as any non-smoker could be by the sight other people's butts everywhere. I picked up the habit from my time in the Air Force of not leaving my butts on the ground: someone was going to have to pick them up- and it was often us.
I am half-tempted, whenever I see fellow smokers drop or throw a butt on the ground, to remind them that our world is not their ashtray. I'll probably be more tempted now, but it will still be just as useless, in my opinion. People who are that stupid don't usually take too kindly to being told they're being idiots, however nicely one may put it.
I don't like littering of any kind, but throwing butts down/out is not just unsightly- it can be dangerous. I see people doing it all the time, especially now that many cars don't come equipped with ashtrays anymore.
So how about nabbing them for littering and/or posing a fire hazard, instead of imposing yet another unwarranted tax on all smokers?
And if they ever catch one of those complete imbeciles who empty their car ashtray on the ground, I think they should make them go pick up butts for a month. That would make sense.
Unlike ideas like Mayor Newsome's.