Boston program allows smokers to vote with their butts


              FILE - In this May 4, 2015, file photo, a construction project is takes place in the Seaport District in Boston. General Electric said Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, it will begin relocating its global headquarters to the district in the summer from Fairfield, Conn., and complete the move by 2018. Boston's Seaport District long was filled with docks, warehouses and parking lots. But in recent years it has become the city's hottest and fastest-growing neighborhood. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
FILE - In this May 4, 2015, file photo, a construction project is takes place in the Seaport District in Boston. General Electric said Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, it will begin relocating its global headquarters to the district in the summer from Fairfield, Conn., and complete the move by 2018. Boston's Seaport District long was filled with docks, warehouses and parking lots. But in recent years it has become the city's hottest and fastest-growing neighborhood. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

BOSTON (AP) - The city of Boston is trying to rid the streets of unsightly cigarette butts by placing special receptacles in high traffic areas that will allow smokers to vote on a simple question.

The butt receptacles, with two disposal holes each, will be placed in seven areas of the city.

Each is decorated with a question that has two possible answers.

For example, one butt receptacle asks smokers: "Which superpower would you want?" Smokers can slip their butts in a hole for "Flight" or one for "Invisibility."

The receptacles, which are costing the city about $3,000, are part of the Neat Streets program. They will be installed later this month and residents are encouraged to tweet their own suggestions for questions at #NeatStreetsBos.

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