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Philly Rolls Back Smoking Ban at Treatment Centers

TIME TO LIGHTEN UP? –

Nov. 13, 2021 – “Our addictive behaviors don’t just center around one thing — we need to begin to stop with this hierarchy of drugs, so to speak,” said the department’s deputy commissioner, Roland Lamb, in a 2019 interview with WHYY News. “If you’re telling me that you don’t want to stop smoking, you’re telling me that you’re willing to jeopardize any success that we have at treatment.”

Now, the department is changing its tune.

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Leonard Buschel

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