Like all efforts to change individual behavior, education and awareness are bedrock tools. To see a lasting impact with your Cigarette Litter Prevention Program requires a commitment to ongoing public education and to an environment, including appropriate and sufficient ash receptacles, that helps individuals not litter cigarette butts.

Keep at it. Once your program is underway, keep it going. Meet regularly with the program task force. Establish long-term support for maintaining the program. Make cigarette butt litter prevention part of continuing community improvement efforts.

Sustain education initiatives. Create a long-term education and outreach program to the community around cigarette butt litter prevention. Consider a biannual or quarterly cigarette butt litter count, initiate a regular education push, or work with the media to keep the issue on the front burner.

Grow the program. Enlarge the reach of the existing program. Or, expand to add other locations or venues where cigarette butt litter is contributing to community blight and there is support from stakeholders. Go back to any original list of prioritized locations and move to the next one. Check out areas prone to cigarette butt litter.

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