Cigarette butts, cigarette butts, cigarette butts. If there is one thing – well actually hundreds of things- that stand out from the Garwood Democratic Club’s second 2024 cleanup of Route 28/North Avenue on Saturday, September 28 it is – you guessed it – cigarette butts. While statistics show that there are fewer cigarette smokers in America, you would never know it by our cleanups. I have always said that if cigarette smokers want to dirty their lungs, well, that is their choice, but I wish that in doing so, they did not litter our roadways, parks, and waterways. At every driveway and intersection, there are cigarette butts. Why? Don’t cigarette smokers realize that in throwing their butts out the window, they are just throwing the butts into their own drinking water?
