Environmentalist? Then why she throws cigarette to water?

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A single cigarette is very quickly biodegradable so what's the problem? I think you're arguing aesthetics -- like when a trendy young person complained that I'd yanked some crab grass out by the roots and threw it onto the ground. Just looked out of place to a neatness freak, that's all.

I always think that the cigarette scene looks an insult to the Gillman's world rather than a threat to it. It's strange how scenes like that are so noticeable now but they wouldn't probably have registered with the 1950s audiences.

I saw that, too. I just had the attitude that people are imperfect and don't always think about what they are doing. Also, some people, even though they are environmentalists are caring about it in all the ways they should. But I don't think she was like that.

"Do All Things For God's Glory"-1 Corinthians 10:31
I try doing this with my posts

Back in the fifties it wasn't really thought of in that way. It is now looked at as symbolism though. She's not respecting the Creature's environment.

There wasn't an ashtray handy. It wouldn't take too long to dissolve in the water.

Back then either the cigarette didn't have a filter or the filter was made of cotton and paper... so 100% biodegradable, unlike current day filters.

A bigger concern would be the poor lungfish which is places in an aquarium too small... so it bumps his nose in the walls constantly :(