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| So much cigarette butt in beach now |
Smokers of light in the resort and do not clean when they leave.
Most popular beach in Coney Island city, covered with cigarette butts over the weekend - not the kind of PEEK in the lower trunks.
Daily News easily able to pick up a small mountain of cigarette butts in the sand - nearly 1,000 in all - the crowd thinned out party on Saturday afternoons and Sundays.
"And 'disgusting," said Michael Austin, 50, Middle Village, Queens, when he observed trash tobacco dependence. "
"It 's like a giant sitting in an ashtray."
It is not just junk on the basis of the fact that smoking is a problem.
Ocean advocacy group Conservation nonprofit said cigarette butts and filters, left in the sand and swept into the sea by the tide, is a source of marine debris.
City Parks Department clean up the beach at night, with a rake in his hand and a tractor trailer and screens designed, a spokesman said Vickie Karp.
But to get fresh air helps swimmers crammed in next to the smoke deflector ass vomit.
"It 'horrible," said Rose Mangual, 53, of Jersey City. "I suffered from bronchial asthma, because things like that."
Smokers banned from restaurants, bars, playgrounds and bowling alleys of the city, but they can still enjoy their habit on the beach.
The city last year proposed a smoking ban at beaches and parks are supported by the Coalition of New York City Smoke-Free.
"Everyone has the right to breathe clean air, both in the park, beach, ball field or a game, or even a bar," said Sheelah Feinberg coalition.
"If the second hand smoke and you are out, people think it does not matter. But the truth is that there is no safe level of secondhand smoke.
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