What on Earth is the point of that??? Isn’t it all about making it as disgusting as possible? I really don’t see how you could make it much worse, maybe you could collect dirt in there, and dead insects. “Look, it’s my dirt collection.”

Do smokers actually see it any different? “Oh my god, what a beautiful clean ashtray, let me foul it up immediately.” Or “what a disgusting ashtray, let me use it right now.”

It doesn’t really add up, because if you’re concerned about keeping your house nice and clean, then the polluted air from smoking and consequently the residue of ashes mixing with the air makes it so disgusting that your house is never clean. It’s like shoveling snow while it’s actually snowing, completely pointless.