"smoking ashes"

#12822067

2 October 2025

A small plastic container filled with cigarette butts sits on a table next to empty soft drink bottles and a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on October 1, 2025. The scene highlights issues of waste, smoking, and littering in public spaces.

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#11308710

6 June 2024

A smoker is putting ashes into an ashtray on top of a rubbish bin in Hong Kong, China, on June 6, 2024. The Hong Kong Government is proposing measures to further restrict smoking in the city.

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#9314714

14 December 2022

Man adds wood to the funeral pyre of a high-caste man of importance who is being cremated along the bank of the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus. The complex at Pashupatinath is the holiest Hindu site in Nepal.

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#9314728

14 December 2022

Relatives wait at a funeral pyre along the bank of the Bagmati River for a body to finish burning during a cremation at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilos of wood using butter as fuel. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#9314730

14 December 2022

Relatives wait at a funeral pyre along the bank of the Bagmati River for a body to finish burning during a cremation at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilos of wood using butter as fuel. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#9299352

9 December 2022

A man stokes the fire of a cremation pyre along the bank of the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus. The complex at Pashupatinath is the holiest Hindu site in Nepal.

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#9299058

9 December 2022

Funeral pyres along the bank of the Bagmati River burn as bodies are cremated at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#9299066

9 December 2022

Funeral pyres along the bank of the Bagmati River burn as bodies are cremated at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#9299234

9 December 2022

Cremation of the body of a high-caste man of importance along the bank of the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus. The complex at Pashupatinath is the holiest Hindu site in Nepal.

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#9299346

9 December 2022

A funeral pyre along the bank of the Bagmati River burns as a body is cremated at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#7462548

30 November 2021

Relatives wait at a funeral pyre along the bank of the Bagmati River for a body to finish burning during a cremation at Pashupatinath in Nepal. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. To burn a body fully takes an estimated 4 hours and hundreds of kilos of wood using butter as fuel. Along the Bagmati River next to the Pashupatinath Temple complex are ten allocated spaces for cremation and all day funerals are being held. The bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus.

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#6936632

6 August 2021

Onlookers watch as a pyre is engulfed in flame along the bank of the Bagmati River at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on December 10, 2011. According to Hindu religion and traditions the dead must be cremated. Bodies are cremated according to custom and the ashes and remains are swept into the holy waters. The Bagmati runs into the Ganges further South and is considered equally holy to Hindus. The complex at Pashupatinath is the holiest Hindu site in Nepal.

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#6859184

7 July 2021

Close-up of cigarette butts in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

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#5158092

24 November 2019

Smoking chimney of a ferry in the Adriatic on November 20, 2019

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#5158096

24 November 2019

Smoking chimney of a ferry in the Adriatic on November 20, 2019

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#1937606

6 May 2017

Smoking pipes for cannabis in Athens, Greece, on May 5, 2017 during Athens Cannabis Protestival 2017.

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