There is a simple solution to the problem of cigarette litter at the Liberty Tunnels (and elsewhere): Issue citations to litterers ("Liberty Tunnels Qualify as City's Biggest Ashtray," Sept. 11). Although some people claim that law enforcement has better things to do, we need to ask our elected officials if
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Sure, I have seen smokers toss cigarette butts out through their open vehicle windows. I don't like it, especially at night when the explosion of sparks on my windshield can spook the horses.
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Spent cigarette butts are washing ashore in sharply greater numbers than ever, according to data collected from recent volunteer beach cleanups, and environmentalists believe it's all because of the indoor smoking bans New Jersey and New York passed in recent years.
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Quebec's anti-tobacco troopers have been quietly instructed to wink at their own law when the next big deadline in the provincial war on smoking dawns May 31.
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A dry winter, dead vegetation, increasing temperatures, and high winds during this time of year can bring out the red flags. We are warned not to burn yard debris or leave grills unattended. But there is another fire hazard that is not mentioned that can be a major factor in
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A blind man died Monday when the cigarette he was smoking started a fire in his Bronx apartment, FDNY officials said.
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OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. - A discarded cigarette or other smoking materials may have caused a beach house fire that killed seven South Carolina college students, authorities said Friday, though a preliminary investigation failed to nail down the blaze's origin.
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A man smoking on a second-floor porch apparently sparked a fire at a three-family home on Gridley Street early this morning, fire officials said.
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August 30, 2007, NY Daily News -- "If you have to smoke, you need to be a responsible smoker." That about says it all.
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Kauai Garden Island News, Hawaii, 10 July 2007
Officials with the fire department estimate that roughly half of the county’s 52 brush fires they have responded to this year have been caused by tossed cigarette butts...
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