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Residents want to keep fireworks, ban smoking 

If the results of a community-wide survey empower Unified Govern-ment Commissioners, Kansas City, Kan., residents could expect to be asked to approve a smoking ban ordinance and a quarter-cent sales tax soon.

The survey, administered by the UG's Research Division, was sent out to 3,500 KCK addresses in mid-January. Subtracting those sent to bad addresses and vacant lots, 2,739 were eventually delivered, and 775 surveys ultimately returned, a response rate of 28.3 percent.

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