Abstract
IF YOU listen to some prison officials, you might believe that what this country really needs is a good 5-cent cigar, at least for its inmates. While acknowledging the trend toward a smoke-free society, a number of prison and jail administrators are providing inmates with tobacco at greatly reduced prices or even free. Jailers in Boston, for example, reward helpful prisoners with cigarettes, and incarcerated minors in New York City are allowed to buy cigarettes at jail commissaries, often at considerable discounts. The corrections departments of at least two states—Illinois and Michigan— even manufacture their own cigarettes to sell to inmates at a fraction of the regular cost. Illinois can sell cigarettes for less than $0.35 per pack by not paying the $0.16 federal tobacco excise tax, a practice the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms says is illegal. In the view of many correctional health care professionals, such
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