Hi Gregor,

I have read your comments on Phabricator but am unable to reply there, =
so please excuse me using kde-games-devel.

I think the Waste theme for KMines is a great idea, but I agree with =
Albert that cigarette butts are not such a good idea.

Where I live (Australia) smoking has been banned in workplaces and most =
public places for a number of years, because most of the garbage from =
them goes into people=E2=80=99s lungs =E2=80=94 with horrific results, =
as shown (by law) on Australian cigarette packets. The habit of smoking =
is in decline here.

So cigarette butts on Australian streets are a rarity. On hiking tracks =
they are a definite no-no, because of the danger of bushfires, as would =
also be the case in California and Southern Europe I imagine.

Curiously, non-smokers have become more sensitive to =E2=80=9Cpassive =
smoking=E2=80=9D. I can pick up the whiff of a cigarette on a railway =
platform from about 20 metres away and then I start to cough. Even =
smokers now go outside their houses to smoke, because it makes the house =
smelly and grubby, unpleasant for guests and hard to sell.

So I was dismayed to find, on my last trip to Europe in 2008, how =
prevalent smoking still was over there. It was a definite turn-off in =
what was otherwise a wonderful trip.

Smoking is a health problem. Solve that and the garbage problem from =
cigarette butts will go away.

Even before smoking bans in Australia, bottles, cans and plastic =
packaging made up by far the greatest parts of the trash on streets, =
beaches and hiking tracks =E2=80=94 and still do. So please use those =
items in the Waste theme.

You need to worry about your 6-year old nephew having no fish in the =
oceans, rivers and lakes when he grows up, not to mention the ugliness =
of plastic garbage today. Maybe you could emphasise re-cycling or re-use =
somehow.

If you do stay with cigarettes as the theme, please use the word =
=E2=80=9Cbutt=E2=80=9D for the throwaway part. =E2=80=9CStump=E2=80=9D =
is used for broken trees and posts and amputated limbs.

And please use butts in the graphics, not whole cigarettes. One rarely =
has the luck(?) to find a whole cigarette on the street=E2=80=A6 :-)

Cheers, Ian W.

> On 21 May 2019, at 4:27 am, gregormi <noreply@phabricator.kde.org> =
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