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Smoking bans cause litter surge in the UK

Posted on May 9th 2007 8:38PM by Brian White
Is the banning of smoking in many venues leading to an increase in littering? In the UK, this is what authorities are finding out, as tons of extra litter are building up inside the country every day due to increasing smoking bans in certain restaurants and other social locations.

While I'm sure that smoking has not increased since smoking bans were placed in the UK, how is more litter being generated here? Easy answer: because proper trash receptacles in all those former smoking locations are no longer being used. There is a difference between trash and litter, after all.

So, what should Britain do? Install smoking butt receptacles all over the country to collect those butts as smokers continue smoking outside all the new "smoke-free" zones?

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