Tag: tobacco
How Prisoners Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction, With No Vapes
Harm reduction can always be practiced, regardless of whether you have government approval and ...
Why Tobacco Harm Reduction? A First Question of Many
When I first heard the words “tobacco harm reduction,” as recently as 2022, I ...
GDC Senate Study Committee: What If Prisoners Were Allowed Cigarettes?
In February, Georgia lawmakers created a study committee to think about whether people in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Prison Smoking Bans Created a Health Crisis
When I first entered Washington State Department of Corrections custody in 1995, the currency ...
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 ...
A Long Walk With the Tobacco Users of Mumbai
I‘m taking a walk through central Mumbai with Rizwan, who switched from smoking tobacco ...
“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 ...
