Cigarette-starved prisoners smoking pages from the BIBLE filled with tea bags

Smoking bans in four UK jails have seen inmates turn to bizarre creations to feed their addiction.

Prisoners who are desperate for nicotine have resorted to paying £10 for cigarettes made with tea bags stuffed into Bible paper.

The tea bags are mixed with nicotine patch glue and the Bible pages are used as paper to roll up the make-shift sticks.

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Inmates have been forced to take the drastic measures after the cigarette bans were introduced to HMPs Exeter, Channings Wood, Dartmoor and Eriestoke.

However, the the Ministry of Justice plans to extend the ban to prisons across the country.

The Bible cigarettes are reportedly even harder to get hold of than drugs, some of which have led to nearly 60 deaths in UK jails.

Letters, blotting paper and magazines are being soaked in former legal highs and smuggled inside, according to Steve Gillan, chairman of the Prison Officers Association.

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