Montgomery County lawmakers are considering new ways to prevent people from smoking, including more restrictions on where smoking is allowed.

“I’d like to get the smoking rate in Montgomery County to zero,” County Councilman George Leventhal, D-at large, said at a meeting of the county’s Health and Human Services Committee, which he heads. “Whether we do that through legislation is not clear.”

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