Teens who smoke in Lee’s Summit may wind up in court

It wasn’t so long ago that American high schools accommodated students who smoked cigarettes. On drizzly days, nicotine clouds would billow out from underneath the umbrellas of students getting their fix in outdoor “lounges.”

Nowadays you can’t say the word “Winston” within 500 yards of a school building. And the City of Lee’s Summit is considering an ordinance that would make it a crime for minors to even possess cigarettes.