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Author: Shelley Marsden - 22/04/08
Intro: Smokers who flick away their buts on pavements outside pubs are the focus of a new crackdown in the city.
Other people who will be hit by new by-laws from Dublin City Council are those who throw away packaging from take-away food.
Cigarette butts piling up on pavements have become a real eyesore since Ireland's smoking ban came in, in 2004, now making up 56% of a all street rubbish.
Assistant City Manager Matt Twomey said: "Our experience from both our street-cleaning operations and from litter surveys is that takeaway premises are very high generators of litter.
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