Denver sues Big Tobacco demanding they help pay for cleanup of cigarette butts on city streets
- Denver is smoking mad over the “enormous quantities” of cigarette butts littering its public places — so it's suing Big Tobacco to help pay for the cleanup.
- In a 72-page lawsuit, the Mile High City accuses 10 cigarette companies of creating a “public nuisance” by selling smokes with environmentally “persistent” synthetic plastic filters instead of biodegradable ones.
- “We want to make sure that they pay their fair share of the cost that cities are bearing to clean up their mess and that we want to see them change the practice," Mayor Mike Johnston told the Denverite website.
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- Denver is smoking mad over the “enormous quantities” of cigarette butts littering its public places — so it's suing Big Tobacco to help pay for the cleanup.
- In a 72-page lawsuit, the Mile High City accuses 10 cigarette companies of creating a “public nuisance” by selling smokes with environmentally “persistent” synthetic plastic filters instead of biodegradable ones.
- “We want to make sure that they pay their fair share of the cost that cities are bearing to clean up their mess and that we want to see them change the practice," Mayor Mike Johnston told the Denverite website.
Sources: The Independent