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Prisons are increasingly restricting tobacco smoking. [123] In the United States, 24 states prohibit indoor smoking whereas California, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Kentucky prohibit smoking on the entire prison grounds. [124] In July 2004 the Federal Bureau of Prisons adopted a smoke-free policy for its facilities. [125]
All South Australian prisons had banned smoking by the end of 2019. [21] The Australian Capital Territory's only adult prison, the Alexander Maconochie Centre, banned smoking in August 2023. [22] In March 2024, Western Australia banned smoking in all women's prisons; smoking bans in men's prisons are also planned for a later date. [23]
District-wide smoking ban: Effective January 2007, smoking is banned in bars, restaurants, and other public places in the District of Columbia; exempts outdoor areas, designated hotel/motel rooms, retail tobacco stores, cigar bars, hookah bars, and businesses that can show they receive 10% or more of their annual revenue from tobacco sales ...
State prisoners are preferring a different form of currency for buying goods and services within the prison system, finds new research. Prison currency shifting from cigarettes to ramen noodles ...
Tobacco products were long exempted from federal oversight until then, limiting regulatory authority to health warnings and a ban on smoking in cer FDA rule limiting nicotine in cigarettes could ...
Anti-tobacco campaigners advocate the removal of tobacco from pharmacies due to the health risks associated with smoking and the apparent contradiction of selling cigarettes alongside smoking cessation products and asthma medication. Some pharmaceutical retailers counter this argument by reasoning that by selling tobacco, they are more readily ...
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was entered on November 23, 1998, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc., R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states.
A number of prominent figures throughout sports throughout history have been caught smoking cigarettes -- including admitted smokers and some athletes who've tried to keep the habit under wraps ...