Philicia McKee with Keep America Beautiful is about to start phase two of a project to get cigarette litter off the streets.
“We hope to find a way to disseminate that information to business owners because it’s important that they know they can have that kind of decrease in their cigarette litter.”
A new cigarette prevention program had started in downtown Topeka. Monday morning, McKee with other members from Keep America Beautiful will be meeting with local businesses and trying to educate them on keeping cigarette butts off the sidewalks so we can be one of the cleanest cities in the US.
“Nationwide they’re showing a decrease in cigarette litter with the affiliates that have put the program in place. 50 to 75 percent and I’m hoping we have an incredible number like that. We can report to the businesses and we want people to understand that it is cigarette litter that it doesn’t just doesn’t disappear, that it doesn’t just stay there that it stays there for seventeen years.
Philicia will hit downtown and will ask small businesses to educate their employees about taking their cigarettes and putting them out in the right places rather than throwing them on the ground.
Keep America Beautiful says this is not a campaign against smoking. It’s about throwing your trash in the right place.
“This is not a campaign against smoking, this is a campaign against cigarette litter and it is the most common piece of litter found in the United states today.”
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Tobacco is an annual or bi-annual growing 1-3 meters tall with large sticky leaves that contain nicotine. Native to the Americas, tobacco has a long history of use as a shamanic inebriant and stimulant. It is extremely popular and well-known for its addictive potential.
Nicotiana rustica leaves.
Nicotiana rustica leaves have a nicotine content as high as 9%, whereas Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) leaves contain about 1 to 3%
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, Philippines, and the Eastern United States.
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines. In consumption it may be in the form of cigarettes smoking, snuffing, chewing, dipping tobacco, or snus.
