cigarettes

GDC Senate Study Committee: What If Prisoners Were Allowed Cigarettes?

In February, Georgia lawmakers created a study committee to think about whether people in the state's prison system, at least…

September 5, 2024

A New Gaza Strip Tobacco Market, and One in US Prisons That’s Getting Old

In early August, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) air-dropped cigarettes over the Gaza Strip. Attached were leaflets bearing messages like:…

August 22, 2024

Joe Camel Wasn’t Why I Started Smoking. Or Even Smoking Camels.

In the late 1980s, Joe Camel was my guy. My first incentive to smoke Camels was economic. I hadn't preferred…

July 30, 2024

A Wealth of Tobacco in Prison, and a Dearth of Ways We Can Smoke It

Within Georgia Department of Corrections facilities, the contraband tobacco industry is robust enough to support a cottage industry for rolling papers.…

March 13, 2024

“Marlboro Kids” in the ’70s, in Search of Cigarettes and Adulthood

It was around kindergarten age that I discovered who I wanted to be when I grew up. It was 1970,…

January 30, 2024

Allowing Vapes in Our Prison Would Be Violence Harm Reduction, Too

Washington state banned public smoking on December 8, 2005. The Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC), however, had been preparing…

May 31, 2023

How I Quit Cigarettes in Prison, After Smoking for 40 Years

I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. It’s strange to think that I…

February 23, 2023

New Court-Ordered Cigarette Warnings Will Omit Harm Reduction

On December 6, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that tobacco companies would be required to post signs in retail…

December 9, 2022

Why Aren’t We Celebrating the End of Teenage Smoking?

When I was a teen in a small Midwestern town in the 1970s, the US high school smoking rate was…

September 12, 2022

Federal Vape Tax Reappears in “Build Back Better”—New Cigarette Tax Vanishes

Over the past few weeks, vaping activists have finally had some cause to cheer. Youth vaping rates, long used as…

November 4, 2021