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Litter News

Litter News

Every day we see articles about littering in the news, most notably cigarette litter because it causes fires. Each day I receive a list of articles regarding these incidents and will be posting them to make the point that discarded cigarette butts pose more of a threat than just their unsightliness.

LitterButt has also received it's fair share of press including articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and even mention on Good Morning America. These items will also be posted.

Hollywood Tells Smoking to Butt Out

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on Thursday that concluded the number of movie scenes depicting smoking has fallen an astonishing 49% since 2005. Compared to 3,967 incidents of tobacco use in the prior poll, the more recent films evaluated featured only 1,935 such incidents. The CDC defined an incident “as the use or implied use of a tobacco product by an actor, with a new incident occurring each time a tobacco product went off-screen then came back, or a different actor was shown with tobacco,” according to The New York Times Aug. 19 article.

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