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Down With Private Clubs In Utah

Sep 23, 2008 Jill Adler, Associate Editor

Utah's liquor laws may soon be a little less screwy if Utah's Governor Jon Huntsman has his way.  Utah is the only state where you have to join a... Full article

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• by gwiffie Sep 25, 2008
  As a Utah native, I am embarrassed by the silly "private club" law. As if that keeps people from drinking! How silly can the lawmakers be??? (Ruht roh...'guess they are pretty silly!)
  Anyway, I took 3 friends to a bar in Park City. We had to buy a "membership" to have a cocktail cuz' drinking is evil...but it was O.K. for cigarette smoke to be blown in our faces! Yuck!
  Sorry, sorry, but you gave me a forum...I also cannot believe how smokers just throw their trash (butts) on the beautiful new snow. Cigarette butts are trash...put them wear trash belongs.
  
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• by moto Sep 25, 2008
  Smoking ban took longer to implement because although 90% of Utah legislators are LDS and (probably) don't smoke, the money they accepted from Big Tobacco lobby is as green as the money the DABC generates in the booze monopoly. Kudos to Huntsman for pushing for these things. It will help the tourism-fueled economy to normalize the "nightlife" associated with a good ski vacation.
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