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Florida Nicotine Addiction Suit Settled

Loaded on March 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News March, 1999, page 15
Filed under: Smoking, Settlements, Costs, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab. Location: Florida.
The cover story in the January, 1998, issue of PLN , "Smoking, Lies and Hypocrisy," by Paul Wright, mentioned the case of Thomas Waugh. Waugh, a Florida prisoner, had sued Florida prison officials for failing to provide him with any type of treatment to help him stop smoking. Waugh contended ...

 

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