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Automobile Ashtrays Obsolete in New Millenium

13 October 1999

Automobile Ashtrays Obsolete in New Millenium: Smoker's Sidekick Provides Alternative

    DESTIN, Fla., Oct. 12 -- Automobile ashtrays will be obsolete
with the models of the new millennium, increasing cigarette litter as smokers
are forced to flick their butts out of the window.  But a new environmentally
friendly portable ashtray is now on the market, giving smokers a disposal
alternative.
    The Smoker's Sidekick(TM), as featured in the Wall Street Journal,
resembles a "to go" coffee mug with a dome lid and an interior funnel that
traps lingering smoke and takes it out of the air.  The Sidekick is designed
and patented by CSL, Inc. Environmental Products, and is available through
national catalogs and many tobacco outlets (about $14.95, call 800-622-6069).
See http://www.smokersoutpost.com.
    Even in automobiles that currently have factory-installed ashtrays, they
are often inconvenient and awkward for drivers, causing messy ash debris and
increasing the risk of burn damage.
    "Tossed cigarette butts are America's number one litter problem, with over
470.45 billion filter tip cigarettes smoked in the nation each year," said
Carol Luedecke, President of CSL, Inc.  "Each one of these butts takes five to
seven years to decompose."
    The Sidekick's safety-tested, spill-proof design allows the portable
ashtray to fit in any standard cup holder, where smokers can drop in their
butts, which will snuff without stubbing.  The portable ashtray will hold over
three packs of cigarettes, and also clip to a belt, handbag or golf bag, and
can be used virtually anywhere on land or sea.
    "Cigarette butts are the number one form of litter collected in both
coastal and inland clean up campaigns," noted Luedecke, herself a nonsmoker.
"If we're going to increase our impact on litter prevention, we need to
recognize that butts are litter, too."
    CSL, Inc.'s signature product, the Smoker's Outpost(R), is an original
outdoor cigarette butt receptacle shaped like a genie's bottle; and it now has
a companion trash receptacle called the Litter Mate.
    The Smoker's Sidekick(TM) and other CSL, Inc. environmental products can
be purchased (about $14.95) by calling 1-800-622-6069 or online at
http://www.smokersoutpost.com and through Solutions, Camping World, and AAA Motor
catalogs, and many tobacco outlets.