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  2. Guantanamo Bay detention camp - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the detention camp was established to detain extraordinarily dangerous people, to interrogate detainees in an optimal setting, and to prosecute detainees for war crimes. [33] In practice, the site has long been used for alleged "enemy combatants".

  3. Health effects of electronic cigarettes - Wikipedia

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    In other words, people that use e-cigarettes to quit smoking have a lower chance of quitting than those people that do not use e-cigarettes. [41] There are health benefits that are associated with switching from tobacco products to e-cigarettes, including decreased weight gain after smoking cessation and improved exercise tolerance. [42]

  4. Prison violence - Wikipedia

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    A typical prison cell block in Guantanamo Bay detention center, Camp Delta. Prison violence is a daily occurrence due to the diversity of inmates with varied criminal backgrounds and power dynamics at play in penitentiaries. The three different types of attacks are inmate on inmate, inmate on guard (and vice-versa), and self-inflicted.

  5. Singapore passes law to hold 'dangerous offenders' beyond ...

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    Singapore on Monday passed a law to hold "dangerous offenders" indefinitely, even after they complete their jail sentences. The legislation applies to those above 21 who are convicted of crimes ...

  6. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...

  7. Smoking - Wikipedia

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    Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person. Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled with a small rectangle of paper into an elongated cylinder called a cigarette.

  8. House arrest - Wikipedia

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    After her 14th year of prison, she was released to her dilapidated home in Rangoonhe. She had to serve another 18 months in prison, convicted by a Burmese regional court in August 2009 after an American swam across Inya Lake to her house. [14] The United Nations has declared all of her periods under house arrest as arbitrary and unjust.

  9. FUM - Wikipedia

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    Fum or FUM may refer to: Fum language; Thurman "Fum" McGraw (1927–2000), American football player; Friends United Meeting; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in Iran;