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EDITORIAL: Park board felt the heat from misguided cigar plan 

Where there was smoke, there was a lot of fire recently when the Somerset County Park Commission floated the idea of reinstituting cigar sales at public county golf courses.

That plan drew the wrath of a host of public officials on the county and municipal levels who rightly noted that the sales would run counter to developing policies designed to reduce and eliminate tobacco use on public property. . . .

This week commissioners reaffirmed the ban on tobacco sales, effectively scuttling their cigar plan.

A HIT for cooler heads prevailing.

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