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City Council approves tobacco-free zones in parks  

WENATCHEE — The city will use courtesy as its main tactic in controlling smoking in parks.

The City Council Thursday unanimously agreed to create “tobacco-free” zones around playgrounds and other areas where people gather within Wenatchee city parks.

Signs will be posted around the new zones gently reminding smokers to light up elsewhere.

But compliance will be voluntary.

“I see this as a voluntary enforcement activity,” Mayor Dennis Johnson told the council. “We don’t have the resources to be policing parks for smoking.”

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