To: Tybee Island City Council
No more butts on the beach
We demand a smoke-free beach! Our beach is littered every day with hundreds of cigarette butts. Tybee is one of the only beaches that allow smoking. It's high time we join in and make Tybee Smoke Free! We know better and we need to do better. Our beach, marine life, residents, and visitors deserve better. It's time for the butts to go!
Why is this important?
I am a Tybee Island resident. I grew up in Savannah back when Tybee was Savannah Beach. I was lucky enough to become a full-time Tybee resident around ten years ago. Growing up, we always heard the little slogans like "Keep your butts off the beach". Clearly, those slogans haven't worked. It is appalling at the cigarette butts that are left all over the beach, in the ocean, the sidewalks, everywhere. I think my breaking point was watching a family stand in the water smoking and then when they were finished they THREW THEM IN THE WATER!!! Unfortunately, that wasn't the first time I saw someone do this it just happened to be the first time I saw a group of people do it at once! Enough is enough this is no longer acceptable. It's 2019; we know better!