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Forced Smoking Abstinence: Not Enough for Smoking Cessation
Forced tobacco abstinence alone during incarceration has little impact on postrelease smoking status. A behavioral intervention provided prior to release greatly improves cotinine-confirmed smoking cessation in the community.
Apr 8, 2013
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Apr 9, 2013 09:36
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Program Helps Ex-Cons Stay Smoke-Free
* Forced tobacco abstinence alone, which occurs as prisoners enter tobacco-free prisons and jails, has little impact on post-release smoking status. * This study suggests that a behavioral intervention provided prior to release greatly improves smoking
Apr 8, 2013
MedPage Today
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Apr 9, 2013 09:27
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[New York] Arrests for tobacco smuggling made in Niagara County Jail
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman attempted to smuggle tobacco to a Niagara County Jail inmate by hiding it inside a balloon tucked into the pocket of her 4-year-old son, sheriff’s deputies said.
Mar 24, 2013
Buffalo (NY) News
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Mar 24, 2013 19:43
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[UK-Scotland] Chain-smoking crime clan head Mags Haney is to sue jail bosses claiming they are responsible for her lung cancer
THE convicted heroin dealer blames asbestos in Cornton Vale prison for her contracting the potentially deadly disease and has taken legal advice about her claim.
Mar 15, 2013
Daily Record and Sunday Mail (uk)
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Mar 15, 2013 06:39
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[New Zealand] Career criminal continues fight against prison smoking ban
The Department of Correctons is fighting to stop career criminal Arthur Taylor in his bid to force Corrections to drop their ban on smoking in prison. On December 20 last year, the High Court in Auckland ruled in Taylor's favour finding the blanket ban
Mar 7, 2013
nzoom.com (TVNZ)
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Mar 7, 2013 04:29
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[UK, UK-Wales] Riot fears as cigarettes set to be banned from prisons in England and Wales to stop passive smoking compensation claims from officers
The Prison Service is introducing the ban following a long campaign from staff, who have objected to breathing in the second-hand smoke of inmates. Instead, the criminals will be offered electronic cigarettes or nicotine patches to satisfy their craving
Mar 3, 2013
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
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Mar 3, 2013 13:32
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Put that LAG out: Smoking to be banned in all UK prisons
Lighting up will be outlawed at all 123 jails in England and Wales – even outside in the exercise yards
Mar 3, 2013
The Mirror (uk)
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Mar 3, 2013 12:35
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[Canada] Tous les moyens sont bons pour faire entrer du tabac en prison [All means are good to bring tobacco into prison ]
Body cavities, visitors and "overs" - thrown or deposited by accomplices in court Penitentiary - are the most common ways to bring tobacco.
Feb 19, 2013
La Presse (ca)
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Feb 19, 2013 17:46
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[Canada] Québec hésite à interdire le tabac en prison [Quebec hesitate to ban smoking in prison]
Ministry of Public Security of Quebec still evaluating the results of a pilot project underway in prison Chicoutimi before making a decision.
Feb 19, 2013
La Presse (ca)
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Feb 19, 2013 17:43
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[Canada] Prisons fédérales: le marché noir du tabac explose [Federal prisons: the tobacco black market explodes ]
Inmates are constantly new ways to spend tobacco behind the walls of prisons, while the asking price - close to $ 10 for a single cigarette - reached astronomical levels. This activity takes such proportions that the provincial government is reluctant to
Feb 19, 2013
La Presse (ca)
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Feb 19, 2013 17:42