Smoking still the rage in Scranton region

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton area is No. 2 in the nation -- for smoking. The dubious ranking was revealed in an article in the national website The Daily Beast. The rankings were based on statistics including the number of smokers per capita and the average number of cigarettes smoked per day. About 23 percent of residents in the northeastern Pennsylvania region smoked an average of 17