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A British study concludes that a 62 percent increase in “air-rage” incidents among airline passengers can largely be traced to misbehavior among drinkers and smokers, the Daily Mail reported Dec. 6.

The British Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) report concluded that “the main contributory factors to disruptive behavior were alcohol and tobacco,” including violent drunks and passengers who refused to obey smoking bans. Reports of air-rage incidents have quadrupled since 2002, the agency noted, partly because airlines have adopted a “zero tolerance” policy towards such offenders.

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Locking up a swelling cadre of methamphetamine users and dealers has given Georgia the fastest-growing prison population in the U.S., according to state prison officials.

The Moultrie Observer reported Oct. 23 that Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner James Donald said that the prison system is now operating at 105 percent of capacity. “We know exactly where our population is coming from,” he said. “We’ve taken in 250 to 300 meth-related criminals each month, almost 3,000 a year. Ninety-seven percent of them are white, by the way … That’s really crowding us in our jails.”

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