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September 16, 2005
Inmates at Canada's Headingley Correctional Center are no longer allowed to have tea after jail officials discovered they were using the bags to make cigarettes. Smoking was banned at the facility two years ago.
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May 31, 2005
Hours after crane resident Carl Edward Roland appeared in court for a hearing in last week's infamous standoff, another man made his way up a different crane in the same area of the city Monday night. Thomas Eugene Robinson, 26, did not prove as determined as Roland however, and police were able to coax him down with cigarettes and doughnuts by early Tuesday.
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April 18, 2005
When Jane Fromal got in her bathtub last week to take a bath; she had no idea it would last five days. The 75-year old woman bathes to soothe her aching back, however, this time she could not lift herself out of the tub. Neighbors realized something was wrong when newspapers piled up in front of her home, then called her grandson who found her trapped in the bathroom. Fromal is making a full recovery after being hospitalzed for dehydration, despite the fact she drank tap water during her ordeal. She says "I thought I'd get in the tub and soak. I didn't know I was going to soak for five days. " Upon being rescued, Fromal asked for a soda and cigarettes even though she had not eaten in nearly a week. Relatives say they will install a tub chair and safety railing to avoid any future such incidents.
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April 14, 2005
South African zoo workers are working to find a way for their star chimpanzee to quit smoking. Charlie, a grown male chimp at the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them. Zoo officials blame the habit on its visitors, stating the chimp probably picked up the habit after mimicking the humans he saw daily. "Baby chimps pick up habits by mimicking adults and we think he started mimicking smokers at his enclosure which probably led to smokers throwing him cigarettes," says zoo spokesman Daryl Barnes. Charlie is already showing the signs of a true nicotine addict. "He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area," Barnes said, adding that the zoo was determined to help him quit.
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