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Thieves Blamed for Cigarette Butt Problem at UH 

UH officials say they did provide old coffee cans filled with sand for smokers to use.

"We've noticed though that these ash cans tend to get stolen on a regular basis for whatever reason," Gregg Takayama, University of Hawaii, said. "And so we try as much as possible to replace them as often as they're stolen. But they just don't keep up."

For now, the University hopes a special sidewalk cleaner it recently acquired will help.

"Rather than pushing them on, onto the grass or dirt, they'll actually pick them up and make it cleaner," Takayama said.

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