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The Alabama Department of Corrections is banning tobacco across all state prisons starting September 1 — but ZYN nicotine pouches and NicoDerm patches stay in canteens. The policy affects 21,000+ inmates and separates tobacco from nicotine in a way no other state prison system has.

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Snus contains ground tobacco. Nicotine pouches do not. That single distinction drives everything — the regulation, the taste, the supply chain, and why one is legal in the EU and the other is not. Here is the plain-language breakdown.