tobacco

Patrick Schutz was convicted of the nonviolent crime of forgery in 2002.

The Casper Police Department recently announced that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Denver Field Division is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the arrest of a suspect who attempted to burn down the Wellspring Health Access Clinic in Casper two weeks ago.

The defeat on first reading on Dec. 1 posed a problem because the city ordinance would then be out of sync with state law.

Local governments can craft local ordinances to make state laws more strict, but not less strict.

The defeat of the proposed revisions to the tobacco ordinance means the City of Casper is out of sync with state law.

Nationally, hundreds of individual and class-action lawsuits have been filed and combined into a mass litigation lawsuit in San Francisco.

Manufacturer Juul Labs said in November it was halting U.S. sales of its best-selling, mint-flavored e-cigarettes.

However, it is still illegal for retailers to sell any tobacco product to any person under the age of 21, per the new federal law.

Officials say 95% of smokers start before the age of 21.

In November, Racine was elected to a second term as attorney general and Raoul was elected to his first.