Smoke-Free Beach Streets Pitched For Ocean City

The Mayor and City Council have voiced a consensus to move forward in creating smoke-free areas on the beach by next summer.

Terry Steimer of the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation and chair of the Ocean City “Leave Only Your Footprints” campaign received permission this week from the Mayor and City Council to continue a program to place cigarette butt cans along the resort’s beach and Boardwalk.

In the last year, the foundation has initiated a pilot program to place cigarette butt cans along the beach and Boardwalk to educate smokers in the responsible areas to smoke.

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