Within Georgia Department of Corrections facilities, the contraband tobacco industry is robust enough to support a cottage industry for rolling papers.…
The American Bicentennial was a very prolific time in my life. I had just completed fifth grade, and would be…
Washington state banned public smoking on December 8, 2005. The Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC), however, had been preparing…
I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. It’s strange to think that I…
On December 6, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that tobacco companies would be required to post signs in retail…
When I was a teen in a small Midwestern town in the 1970s, the US high school smoking rate was…
Over the past few weeks, vaping activists have finally had some cause to cheer. Youth vaping rates, long used as…
When it comes to taxing cigarettes, there’s rarely any opposition from lawmakers. “Sin taxes,” as they’re sometimes called, raise significant…