Butts Off Mauis Beaches

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Since 2006, Hawaii’s indoor smoking ban has stopped people from smoking in restaurants where others could be harmed from secondhand smoke. But inadvertently, the law has hurt our beaches with smokers escaping beach-side restaurants to light up on the sand. All too often, absentminded smokers who don’t know the consequences of these actions will discard their butts on the sand. But even the smallest butt on the sand can cause detrimental effects to Maui’s marine life.

We created BOMB, Butts off Maui's Beaches, because as regular beachgoers we’re concerned about the alarming problem posed by cigarette butts. Besides humans not appreciating it, marine animals and the beaches don't, either. When a cigarette butt is floating out in the water, a turtle can mistake it for food and eat it, which causes asphyxiation. The cigarette butts threaten coral reefs and other animals, too. Littering is unfair to the environment; marine animals shouldn't have to suffer from human's careless actions. We want to make a law that bans smoking on Maui's beaches- the less litter there is, the more beautiful they remain

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