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Lakewood tightens some smoking rules, rejects others  

The Lakewood City Council agreed to tighten some public smoking rules late Monday night but rejected efforts to take the restrictions as far as health advocates wanted them to go.

The council voted 9-2 to expand the no-smoking "bubble" around building entryways from 15 feet to 25 feet, to ban smoking in most gathering places of public park space, and to block the opening of any more cigar or hookah bars.

Other rules will bar anyone under 18 from entering a tobacco business or a cigar or hookah bar.

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