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WSU grounds worker puts a month’s worth of cigarette trash on display  

Bryce Fogelson doesn't mind smokers, but he hates what they leave behind.

Fogelson finds cigarette butts littered everywhere on the Winona State University campus -- in the cracks of sidewalks, in the mulch of rock gardens and flicked haphazardly near the hundred or so ashtray receptacles outside the entrance of nearly every campus building. . . .

The full-time WSU senior and part-time campus maintenance worker -- a job funded by taxpayers -- sucks up the littered butts with a vacuum reverse blower.

But after three years on cigarette patrol, he's seen enough.

Fogelson collected thousands of stray cigarette butts littering the campus over the past month and put the heaping pile on display for his fellow students Thursday in WSU's Kryzsko Commons. All brands -- the camel and cowboy included -- were well-represented.

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