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Champion cigarette litter prevention. 

Start in your neighborhood.

Look around.  Understand your community’s ethic around the cigarette litter issue.  Take a quick assessment:

  • Where is cigarette litter impacting the community’s quality-of-life, economy, and neighborhood?  Where are the areas of greatest need?
  • Find out about local litter laws. Do they exist?  Are they enforced? Do they target cigarette litter?
  • Identify stakeholders.  Seek out individuals or groups in the community who may be motivated to reduce cigarette litter.  Start talking to them and share your concerns.

Start a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program. Create a prevention program in your community.  It’s doable.  It gets results.  We’ll show you how:

 

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It seems like every… merchant is more aware that there are cigarette butts
out there, and it
seems like everyone is making more of
an effort to keep
the area and the
whole downtown in
the Commons clean.

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Phil White,
Ithaca Downtown Partnership, NY

 
How To Do It

In 2007, communities implementing a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program saw a 54% reduction of cigarette litter on average nationwide.  Some reported as much as a 65% reduction.