By Brady's cottages a boy for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt.

"It had been closed for six months and there were still fag butts in ashtrays," Pern recalls.

Well, a red-top reported that, when the horrified cleaners gained access, there were "fag butts and ash" everywhere.

She presses her paws into wet mud studded with fag butts and studiously looks wherever I’m not.

In the spirit of good house sharing, everyone needs to take a bin bag and clear up any bottles, fag butts and congealed foods.

"The pram cracks over branches, fag butts, glass;/ my son cries like he sees my vilest thoughts," says the narrator of "Will Write Properly Soon."

"I've ordered a sausage platter!" shouted a friend as I walked in, carefully lifting my full-length dress up out of the way of the aeons-worth of fag butts and beer mud in the stairwell.

Previously, my only faintly greenish thought about nature came when I started, a few years ago after a trip to Tasmania, to try to remember to pick up my fag butts, in order to play my self-righteous bit.

On average, just over four hours a week are spent cleaning – “just” being the word here, given that on Sunday I spent six hours vacuuming, washing, dusting and sweeping the garden of old leaves and discarded fag butts (so satisfying).

Outrage has simmered and stewed at the criminal waste of Colin Firth – arguably the most charming man in British cinema – in a role that requires him to shuffle around looking like an unmade bed with loads of fag butts and half-eaten sandwiches in it.

Stained sheets, fag butts, empty beer bottles, condom and worn underwear can all be seen in this image of suicidal depression following a major break-up.

The band performed alongside exotic dancers amid fag butts and beer puddles, while "assorted lowlifes and sleazy characters" cheered them on.

I dream of being able to walk the streets around my home without ever breathing the nasty fumes left by a smoker or stepping over a fag butt.