Modern Australian

Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leaves

  • Written by Cheneal Puljevic, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland
Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leavesPrison represents only a temporary disruption in tobacco use for many smokers.TeodorLazarev

Following a ban on tobacco smoking in prisons, some Australian prisoners are creating substitute cigarettes from crushed nicotine lozenges mixed with tea leaves. More than half of the participants we sampled in our recent study have used this product, known...