lol @ all the idiots here. For one thing, most cars don't come with ashtrays anymore, so there's no place to put the cigarette out. Also, pretty sure the filters degrade pretty fast, so really it wont hurt anything by flicking it out the window. And everyone who complains about second hand smoke: I'm pretty sure the exhaust from the car is 100x worse than the smoke from the cigarette. If you are close enough to inhale smoke from someone who is smoking in their car, you are close enough to inhale the exhaust too. And second-hand smoke is actually not as bad since the smoker's lungs would have filtered it slightly when they inhaled it. Not like it matters though, since you only inhale a tiny amount of smoke (unless you have your mouth right next to theirs for some reason). There's tons of carcinogens floating around in the air anyways, so the second-hand smoke isn't going to do much additional damage. Quit your bitching. I do my part to not smoke near people who don't like it. Just stay where you are and the world can be a nice, happy place without people bitching over shit that doesn't even matter.

You live in california don't you

Sorry but you got owned XD

ok a get it don't throw your butts out the window because those things stay for quite a bit, but saying the ash is polluting, really? that's no different than having a fire. would you consider having a fire littering too?

You should of break checked him and his fancy car.

Unless he took a picture of u flicking the ashes or the cig he can't do shit unless he has proof otherwise it's heresy wouldn't hold up an any court if he tried

That was extremely dangerous. Once someone gets that mad they aren't to far from violence. Sounds like you were lucky. It kinda ticks me off too when I see people smoking and littering. Mostly cause I have lost so many family members to cancer. Just because you smoke doesn't mean it's okay to just flip it out the window. Hope you learned from this. There are lots of crazy people out there and you never know when there going go psycho on you.

Tell him its a 150 dollar fine for using your cell phone while driving.

Lol at everybody bla'ing on about you smoking! If you smoke, you smoke! Flicking a butt out would be a different matter, however if I'm not mistaken a little bit of ash out of your window isn't going to do allllll that much damage! People need to look at the bigger picture here, the op had a guy following them, trying to get hold on their licence plate?? Seriously!! People need to reevaluate life slightly!!!! If it was a young girl late at night alone, and a older man was following her does she deserve to be scared cos she was smoking a cigarette??

You can get the money for the ticket by not buying the freaking cigarettes they are so expensive and if you saved all that money YOU might be able to get a nice car. You pollute the earth, waste money and kill yourself slowly by doing this.