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TIL in 2013 a California woman waited outside a county jail for several hours in order to slap someone because she wanted to go to jail so she could stop smoking. She "knew that the only way to quit smoking was to go to jail because they don't allow tobacco" She ended up being sentenced to 63 days.

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