SpringfieldNewsSun.com

The Adobe Flash Player is required to view this multimedia interactive. Get it here.

Cigarette suspected cause of fire at Frickers

Employees, customers evacuated from restaurant, which had about $1,000 in damage.

Ferguson attempts suicide after being found guilty on all 32 counts
10:05 a.m.
State jobless rate jumps to 10.5 percent
11/20/09
Attorneys question turbine report
11/20/09
Longtime Springfield schools secretary to retire after 44 years
11/20/09
NASA images to be unveiled at Urbana University
11/20/09
> More headlines

A tossed cigarette is being blamed for a fire, Friday, July 3, at Fricker’s restaurant, 1616 Upper Valley Pike.

Read Full Article

Share this article

I am a smoker. I put my cigs out and then put the butts in my pocket or my purse, if there is not an ashtray around. Remember ppl, when u point a finger @ someone, there r 3 fingers pointing back at u. I am a Springfield native and my kids live in Springfield, I now live in Sandusky and even here I c more trash on the ground then I do cig. butts.

Angela M. Campbell
5:24 PM, 7/7/2009

I am a non-smoker and agree that cigarette butts are nasty. My husband is a smoker, but uses common sense. Don't say every smoker "NEVER" uses their ashtray. He does. A cigarette butt is approximately 1" long. They are @ the doors of the restaurants, because that's where the cans are to dispose of them. It's disgusting to have them there, but the alternative is on the ground. Maybe we should worry about the 20 oz pop bottles and fast food bags all over our nation's roads and highways.

DH in Urbana
10:10 AM, 7/6/2009

I am a smoker and yes I don't agree with throwing cigarettes out the window or dumping ashtrays in parking lots. But honestly when I drive down the street I don't see cigarette butts on the side of the road, I see fast food bags, trash bags and beer bottles. So if everyone on here is out to point a finger, lets take care of the junk we can see first!!

My2centsworth
4:28 PM, 7/5/2009

No Smoker uses their ashtray! Ever. I can not stand to see people throw their butts out the window. Its called LITTERING.

clean lungs
9:02 AM, 7/5/2009

ou know your right every car built today and yesterday comes with an ashtray and you smokers always flick them out the window or empty your ashtray in the parking lot went its full maybe you should get up off your fat *** and put butts in there place .

fed up with butts
8:54 AM, 7/5/2009

It is funny how non-smokers thing all smokers throw their butts everywhere... their ignorance! There is more litter in this town caused by bottles, fast-food litter, etc. The persecution of smokers is simply out of hand - why don't you get off you fat butts and lobby to make smoking illegal - then you can make up the tax revenue by paying extra taxes on candy, fast-food, ding-****, etc.

Be careful to judge all smokers - the finger might just come back to point at you!!!

Everyone judges others-GREAT
11:12 PM, 7/4/2009

I have visited this restaurant many times and there is an ashtray outside of the building. As a non-smoker it disgusts me how smokers throw their cigarette butts around without a care as to how it makes our city look. Use some commonsense people.

non-smoker
6:53 PM, 7/4/2009

Yeh Geesh, I hardly ever see a smoker toss their butt out a car/truck window... (((eyes rolling)))

If you properly dispose of your trash then you are rare in the sm0ker world!

geesh-louise
5:47 PM, 7/4/2009

I am a smoker and never throw my cigarette buts out, I extinguish them properly and do not smoke in designated areas as well..if the restaurant does not have a place to dispose the cigarettes then they are just as much to blame as the person doing it. Just because one person does it does not mean all do and to insult one's intelligence due to them being a smoker is ludicrous!

Same goes for people that throw trash out of their car windows!

geesh
5:24 PM, 7/4/2009

We should stop going into any resturants or stores
that allows smoking within the state required distance of the door.Also stores should not allow their employees to smoke at their entrance.I refuse to go in places that I have to walk throw second hand smoke just to get in and spend my money.

fed up
2:59 PM, 7/4/2009

You can't walk three feet anywhere in Springfield without seeing cigarette butts littered on the ground. Most smokers think the world is just one giant ashtray. It shouldn't surprise anyone that out of the millions of cigarette butts littered in Springfield each year one of them caused a fire.

KAF
2:03 PM, 7/4/2009

agree smoking at the front door should not be allowed. if I am not mistaken the state law says they have to be at least 30-50 feet away. Smokers need to make use of the pots made especially for disposing of the butts. I don't recall seeing one. Smokers need to be more responsible, and in this case the smoker needs pay damages.

private
11:59 AM, 7/4/2009

I thought the law was so many feet from the building..and if a smoker caused it, Y would we NOT blame them...

Marty341
11:42 AM, 7/4/2009

Frickers should ban smoking directly in front of the doors anyway. You have to walk through a cloud of smoke to enter or leave that place. They should build an outdoor patio where smokers could congregate instead of in front of the building - looks trashy.

private
11:41 AM, 7/4/2009

How about a statewide idiot ban instead?

bob
9:20 AM, 7/4/2009

Stop blaming the smokers! Just because someone threw something with fire on it too close to a combustable structure.......

Lipshitz
8:59 AM, 7/4/2009

Yet another reason why there should be a state-wide public smoking ban!

infavorofban
1:29 AM, 7/4/2009

I thought cigarette smokers were more intelligent than that. lol

duh
12:57 AM, 7/4/2009

We welcome your comments. Please remember this is a public forum and behave appropriately. Your comments must conform to our visitor's agreement.

Breaking news by e-mail

Start your day with top headlines in your inbox and get breaking news e-mail alerts at any time by subscribing to our Headlines e-mail newsletter.

See Sample | Privacy Policy

SIGN UP

Most popular in Local News

Top Jobs

News photos & videos

About our ads

About our ads

Home | News | Sports | Entertainment | Opinion | Life | Recreation | Photos & Video | Jobs | Cars | Homes
Advertising Media Kit | Online Ad Studio | Advertiser Tools | Customer Service | Our Partners | RSS | Site Map

Copyright © 2009 Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, Ohio, USA.All rights reserved.

By using this site, you accept the terms of our Visitors Agreement and Privacy Policy. About our ads. You may wish to note our other business policies.

This website is ACAP-enabled