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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
More than 350,000 volunteers removed about 7 million pounds of debris from 34,500 miles of coastlines and waterways, along with ocean, river and lake bottoms, The Ocean Conservancy said in the report, released Thursday.
Sixty-eight countries participated in the daylong cleanup last September. This year's cleanup is set for Sept. 15.
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