Take me to your litter. In Texas, that will be mostly cigarette
butts. We - well, you, not me - pitched out almost 400 million
cigarette butts in 2009, which made up 43 percent of Texas highway
litter last year. Smokers who litter don't think cigarette butts
are a big problem, and they are more likely to toss other
items.
Let's inhale: 18 percent of Texans smoke, and six out of 10 Texas
smokers admit they litter. That means 11 percent of Texans are to
blame for almost half of all our litter. Discarded butts now have
taken over first place in roadside trash, replacing food-related
items such as non-alcoholic drink cups and lunch cartons. Meantime,
food trash actually has decreased.
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