Should JP Workers Take ‘Smoke-Free’ Breaks?

Jamaica Plain business owners have pushed a neighborhood-wide effort to clean up litter along the Centre Street business district.

The movement has been a focus of several months’ worth of Jamaica Plain Business And Professional Association meetings, with calls to action for the business community to do their part and self-police the trash situation in front of their stores.

Kim Mitchell, owner of Boing! Toy Shop and member of a BAPA anti-litter committee, suggested at a meeting last Wednesday that employees of Centre Street businesses join together to take breaks without smoking cigarettes.

“We are noticing there are some businesses that their employees are going outside and adding to the litter issue we have on Centre Street,” she said at the meeting.

The anti-litter committee recently sent 130 letters to Jamaica Plain businesses informing them of the movement and the "smoke-free break" asking them to do their parts, Mitchell said.

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