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Tobacco ban at rec areas grows 

It might be slow, but it's a success nonetheless. And it's growing.

Almost a year after the Luzerne County chapter of Steps To A HealthierPA offered to help municipalities craft ordinances banning tobacco products in parks and playgrounds, six of the county's 76 municipalities have signed on, said Carol Hussa, the chapter's program manager.

Plains Township publicly began its program on Wednesday. Two other municipalities are working on such ordinances.

"What has happened is as municipalities implement this, and people see it in the paper, they get interested and want to know if they can do it," Hussa said.

The program, called "Young Lungs at Play,"

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