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Prisoners Need Help Quitting Smoking
By scoop.co.nz
Published: 06/28/2010

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is welcoming the announcement by Corrections Minister Judith Collins on a smoking ban for prisons.

ASH is urging for support for prisoners to quit smoking, including access to a full range of smoking cessation nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) so smokers do not have to quit cold turkey.

At the moment prisoners are offered the standard eight-week course of NRT patches.

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Comments:

  1. prznboss on 06/28/2010:

    "so smokers don't have to quit cold turkey" Awww, poor little guys we surely can't expect that. Let's charge the taxpayers with expensive nicotine patches instead. I'll teach them how I quit cold turkey for a whole lot less money than you're paying for them patches.


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