BOSTON -- 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 receptacles, with two disposal holes each, are decorated with questions that have two possible answers. For example, one butt receptacle asks smokers: "Which superpower would you want?" Smokers can deposit their butts in openings for "Flight" or "Invisibility."
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