Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News
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NEW ORLEANS -- A proposed new law, now working its way through the Louisiana legislature seeks to extinguish the practice of throwing cigarette butts on the ground.
Smokes litter the landscape in downtown New Orleans. The Downtown Development District's "clean team" spent one whole day picking up butts.
"It was 6,871 cigarette butts in a single day on the sidewalks of downtown, and so it's a really substantial problem," said DDD President and CEO Kurt Weigle.