Officials Consider Banning Smoking in State Correctional Centers

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Inmates in West Virginia's correctional centers would be forced to give up smoking and all other tobacco products by July 1 if the state moves ahead with a plan to create tobacco-free prisons.

West Virginia's regional jails have been smoke free for a decade. Expanding the ban to the state's 16 prisons and 11 juvenile facilities would follow a nationwide trend to prohibit all tobacco products in correctional facilities.

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Officials Consider Banning Smoking in State Correctional Centers

"We were looking at the health costs associated with treating tobacco-related illnesses," ...

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