One person has so far been caught for allegedly throwing a cigarette butt from a car window.

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Mooney waved to James, and James dropped his cigarette butt to the earth and stomped it out and waved.

NEWYORKER: Fiction

They start to ask a lot of questions, like, 'How much can she really know about me from my cigarette butt?

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This long-time tobacco bull recommends discarding Philip Morris International like a soggy cigarette butt and viewing the rest of the sector with skepticism.

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The initial cause of the fire can be something as simple as a discarded cigarette butt or a charcoal barbecue left unattended on a balcony.

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After the boy was taken downstairs, the court was told he went into the living room, picked up a cigarette butt from an ashtray and smoked it.

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In one case in Virginia jurors asked the judge if a cigarette butt had been tested for possible DNA matches to the defendant in a murder trial.

ECONOMIST: Forensic science

Following the cigarette-butt controversy, the Paulsens had installed a high fence and planted a line of ornamental spruces that had since grown up enough to screen them from the spectacle.

NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors