Posted By LillianPetal On Tuesday, June 29th 2010. Under: OMG Tags: banning substances, beer, booze, dorkish behaviour, driving, legislation to infiltrate our homes, nanny state, parliamentary unpleasantness, racing, wine, you name it its being legislated against Edit Post
A smoking ban in Canadian prisons has worked well with no riots or uprisings.
From July next year New Zealand inmates will have tobacco taken off them. Critics say the policy could put prison guards in danger, due to increased unrest from stressed prisoners.
Union for Canadian Corrections Officers spokesman Lyle Stewart says they also had warnings about problems, but as they were well prepared nothing eventuated.
“I think that if your prison service prepares well, offers smoking cessation aids and makes sure that everybody knows well in advance what the rules are going to be and they are properly enforced then there will be minimal problems”.
Mr Stewart says he has not seen a single instance of violence related to the ban on tobacco, although there has been a small black market established. He recommends the move to a smokefree policy in New Zealand prisons.
Cut and paste above…..now my input -
I think that a ban on smoking within our prisons is going to be one enormous headache for the inmates and as they are already incarcerated to also stop them smoking (for the sake of the other non smoking prisoners and prison workers) is stupid and short sighted. As far as I know now they only smoke in their cells and in designated areas so what is the big deal……Your freedom is taken away and then the Government legislates that you can’t even smoke – to me this is short sighted and going to cause more grief than they ever imagined.
I wonder when it will be illegal to smoke outside in public or in your own home……getting scary now people, too much legislation is your privacy and rights being totally abused…. Lets also ban booze and drugs and bad parenting and anything else that may or may not affect us as individuals….go Nanny State………
