tobacco

How Prisoners Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction, With No Vapes

Harm reduction can always be practiced, regardless of whether you have government approval and specially designed products. I know this…

November 4, 2024

Why Tobacco Harm Reduction? A First Question of Many

When I first heard the words “tobacco harm reduction,” as recently as 2022, I was a little surprised. What is…

September 16, 2024

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

How Prison Tobacco Bans Created a Drug Market No One Wanted

[Part 1 and Part 2 of this story were published earlier in July.] Back in 2004, right before tobacco was…

July 22, 2024

Advocates Urge Rethink as UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill Returns

The United Kingdom's new Labour government has reintroduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, the King's Speech announced on July 17.…

July 19, 2024

How Iron Law of Prohibition Works in Prisons, Where Everything’s Prohibited

[Read Part 1 of this story here] When I got off the chain bus at Washington State Penitentiary (Walla Walla)…

July 11, 2024

How Prison Smoking Bans Created a Health Crisis

When I first entered Washington State Department of Corrections custody in 1995, the currency was still cigarettes. In any cashless…

July 8, 2024

Recent Reports Reflect How the FDA Props Up the Cigarette Trade

Two subscription-only reports have recently highlighted how the Food and Drug Administration is effectively propping up smoking in the United…

May 17, 2024

A Long Walk With the Tobacco Users of Mumbai

I'm taking a walk through central Mumbai with Rizwan, who switched from smoking tobacco to vaping, then turned vape seller.…

March 27, 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