No family should have to deal
with the consequences of the
events that occurred in Ogden, Utah on January 3, 2012.
So it is with great respect to the families of both Jared Francom and Matthew
David Stewart, who no doubt are both dealing with incredible grief of contrasting nature, that I’m offering up these comments.
with the consequences of the
events that occurred in Ogden, Utah on January 3, 2012.
So it is with great respect to the families of both Jared Francom and Matthew
David Stewart, who no doubt are both dealing with incredible grief of contrasting nature, that I’m offering up these comments.
Whenever a member of law enforcement is killed in the line of duty,
like Officer Jared Francom recently was, it’s a tragedy. When the “target” of the military tactical style operation that led to the shootout leaving the officer dead appears to have been a personal marijuana grow, it’s also infuriating.
like Officer Jared Francom recently was, it’s a tragedy. When the “target” of the military tactical style operation that led to the shootout leaving the officer dead appears to have been a personal marijuana grow, it’s also infuriating.
At 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday, January 3, 2012, members of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force in Ogden,
Utah conducted a “knock and enter” warrant on the home of 37 year-old army veteran Matthew David Stewart.
According to reports, they knocked and no one answered. When they forcefully entered his home in paramilitary style gear, with guns drawn, they encountered gunfire. When it was all said and done, one member of the task force was fatally injured, five members were wounded, Stewart was injured and faces likely charges of aggravated murder (which carries the death penalty
) and multiple counts of attempted aggravated murder.
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Utah conducted a “knock and enter” warrant on the home of 37 year-old army veteran Matthew David Stewart.
) and multiple counts of attempted aggravated murder.
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- Statewide smoking ban: Effective January 1, 2007, as passed in March 2006, Utah's 1995 Indoor Clean Air Act was expanded to ban smoking statewide in all enclosed workplaces in Utah, including bars and restaurants (bars and private clubs were exempt until January 1, 2009), exempting only (1) designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, (2) areas of owner-operated
- businesses with no employees besides the owner, and (3) Native American religious and cultural ceremonies. Local governments are preempted from regulating smoking more stringently than the Act.
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Utah is one of the few states with a statewide smoking ban that does not exempt tobacconists. Wiki Utah
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House approved a proposal to ban the smoking of hookah pipes
and e-cigarettes in public places, after opponents held a hookah pipe smoking demonstration on the Capitol steps then held signs in the gallery urging the bill's defeat.
The bill, HB245, would add those
devices to Utah Indoor Clean Air Act's ban on smoking in public places.
devices to Utah Indoor Clean Air Act's ban on smoking in public places.
restaurants or on public transit
just like cigarette smoking once was,
said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Bradley Last, R-Hurricane.
"We need to do something,"
Last told fellow lawmakers.
"Just realize if we don't do anything
(public establishments) can't stop people from using them."
Last told fellow lawmakers.
"Just realize if we don't do anything
(public establishments) can't stop people from using them."
HB245 would allow existing hookah bars to operate as they do now until at least 2017.
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However, that means the businesses would have return Capitol Hill in five years to lobby for an extention.
"I really believe that personal freedoms are going to be just as important in fives years as they are today," said Nathan Porter,
the manager of Huka Bar and Grill in Murray, which organized the demonstration on the Capitol steps. "Maybe they don't want any more hookah establishments, but they certainly won't put us out of business."
Porter said his establishment is only one of two in Utah. The bill would not allow him to open any more locations.
Electronic cigarettes allow users to inhale vaporized nicotine without the use of tobacco.
Rep. Brian Doughty, D-Salt Lake, said the state shouldn't be involved in a person's private decision
to smoke tobacco from hookah pipes.
The bill would also hurt businesses, Doughty said. Unlike smoking in bars, which has been banned in Utah since 2007, hookah bars depend on the device to stay in business, he said.
Last summer, the Utah Department of Health adopted a rule banning the use of hookah and e-cigarettes in public places but has not enforced the rule awaiting legislative action on the issue.
Manufacturers of electronic cigarettes claim the battery-powered device is safer than cigarettes, which use tobacco.
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However, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, e-cigarettes contain harmful levels of nicotine, a substance the agency classifies as a stimulant drug. "There is no safe level of tobacco smoke," said David Neville, spokesman for the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program at the Utah Department of Health. With tobacco cigarettes a
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