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Draper council joins smoking-ban crusade 

The City Council's 4-1 vote prohibits smokers from lighting up in the city's parks, cemeteries, open spaces, recreation areas, transit stations and within 25 feet of bus stops or 50 feet of mass gatherings.

The sole naysayer, City Councilman Alan Summerhays, said the measure was too broad.

"I don't want people smoking around kids at baseball diamonds. But if they're going to smoke by themselves out in the middle of nowhere, let them kill themselves by themselves," the nonsmoker said Wednesday.

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