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| Are inmates butting out? |
| By The Kingston Whig-Standard |
| Published: 07/05/2007 |
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CANADA - The Correctional Service of Canada spent $2.4 million last year on a program to help inmates quit smoking, but a document obtained through the federal Access to Information Act casts doubt on whether many inmates actually butted out. The document, which reviews the service's current indoor smoking ban, says 58 per cent of federal inmates took the free smoking cessation aids offered to them. Yet tobacco sales at prison canteens dipped by just 2.5 per cent in the six months following the ban's implementation. A correctional service spokesman and officials from the union that represents Canada's 6,000 federal prison guards said yesterday that the numbers may be misleading. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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