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Nicotine Addiction Claims Another Life

Jacob Sullum | 8.9.2006 12:53 PM

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Lawyers for an Ohio man convicted of strangling his ex-girlfriend to death argue that jurors rushed to a death sentence because they were hankering for a smoke and the judge refused to allow cigarette breaks.

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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