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Smokers pay twice as much for leaving cigarette butts  

Liverpool Smokers have paid £98,625 in fines in eight months for dropping cigarette butts on the city’s streets, almost twice as much as last year.

Campaigners such as Forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) said the figure showed that councils such as Liverpool were at the forefront of “antismoking extremism” and were using the antismoking agenda to make money out of smokers.

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