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Prisons to ban smoking 

Jump to full article: Martinsville (VA) Bulletin, 2009-06-23
Author: BULLETIN AND AP REPORTS

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Prisons and other state correctional facilities across Virginia plan to ban tobacco use by February 2010.

Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said smoking is banned or there are designated smoking areas for staff at eight prisons so far, according to The Associated Press.

Patrick Henry Correctional Unit No. 28 in Horsepasture is not one of them, Traylor said last week. Tobacco use is permitted there, he said, but only until Feb. 1.

Then, the tobacco ban “affects everyone, with no exceptions,” Traylor said.

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