A Smoking Ban in Prison? I like it!
I am fiercely against the smoking ban in our bars, clubs, offices etc. The anti smoking lobby are a bunch of nico-nazis who have nothing better to do than to interfere in peoples lives and their right to choose whether or not an individual to smoke.
If I was a bar owner and was told all my customers were now being forced outside my bar to smoke I'd fight tooth and nail to protect my livelihood. The smoking ban has resulted in bar closures not only in NZ, but has contributed in delivering a brutal punch to the industry throughout the United Kingdom where bars are closing every day.
By saying that, I am also a non smoker, never smoked in my life apart from the occasional Cuban cigar and never will take up the filthy habit. But that's my choice. Taking away choices is silly.
Anyway, what I do support is the smoking ban for Kiwi prisons. What a great deterrent to prison, knowing you were not allowed to smoke.
On the Isle of Man it worked and I reckon it would prevent more crime than many of the half cooked anti crime ideas that come out of the brains of the do-gooders.
I don't believe prisoners have any rights left when they go to prison, they have committed a crime, more likely against another person or property - why make prison a home away from home? Banning smoking is a sure fire way to scare people away from prison and crime so it should be applauded and implemented immediately!
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If I was a bar owner and was told all my customers were now being forced outside my bar to smoke I'd fight tooth and nail to protect my livelihood. The smoking ban has resulted in bar closures not only in NZ, but has contributed in delivering a brutal punch to the industry throughout the United Kingdom where bars are closing every day.
By saying that, I am also a non smoker, never smoked in my life apart from the occasional Cuban cigar and never will take up the filthy habit. But that's my choice. Taking away choices is silly.
Anyway, what I do support is the smoking ban for Kiwi prisons. What a great deterrent to prison, knowing you were not allowed to smoke.
On the Isle of Man it worked and I reckon it would prevent more crime than many of the half cooked anti crime ideas that come out of the brains of the do-gooders.
I don't believe prisoners have any rights left when they go to prison, they have committed a crime, more likely against another person or property - why make prison a home away from home? Banning smoking is a sure fire way to scare people away from prison and crime so it should be applauded and implemented immediately!
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Labels: crime, smoking ban
posted by Clint H at
Monday, June 28, 2010
6 Comments:
There has never been a single study showing that exposure to the low levels of smoke found in bars and restaurants with decent modern ventilation and filtration systems kills or harms anyone.
As to the annoyance of smoking, a compromise between smokers and non-smokers can be reached, through setting a quality standard and the use of modern ventilation technology.
Air ventilation can easily create a comfortable environment that removes not just passive smoke, but also and especially the potentially serious contaminants that are independent from smoking.
Thomas Laprade
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Very good and I totally agree. The fact that bars were not allowed to get this compromise and had to take it or leave it was disgusting.
However, prisoners should not have this luxury. Making prison hard for people is a good idea and if it deters a few people from crimes then I am all for it.
Do we allow prisoners to drink alcohol when they go to prison, even if they are alcoholics? No. So why should they still be allowed to smoke when in prison.
As to giving them patches, what the F???. I would possibly agree to this for current prisoners who are affected, but for a limited time only. For new prisoners, then no patches.
Smoking is the least of all dangers facing an inmate.
He can be raped, wounded in a prison brawl, killed by another inmate; he can lose his wife, children and friends; even under the best of circumstances, his future is bleak.
And we want to turn this guy into a sweet, healthy-conscious New Ager?
This is like telling a starving man to stay away from non-organically
grown produce.
The anti-smoking lobby, mixing lofty ideals and authoritarian impulses, as most crusaders do, want inmates to take programs to help them break the habit.
Why would a method that often fails when applied to well-adjusted citizens be successful in the tense environment of prison life?
Depriving inmates of cigarettes is an imposition of middle class values on a population that is largely under-educated and thus, as statistics show, more likely to smoke.
Inmates are paying their dues and their cell is their home. How far can the state invade someone's privacy?
And what's next? A ban on fantisies and masturbation?
Can prisons be transformed into peaceful, healthy havens? Probably not.
If inmates receive unnecessary, cruel treatment, the backlash might be worse than whiffs of second-hand smoke.
Thomas Laprade
Simple- stay of of jail
Snowbird - this is simply providing all the sleazebags out there another incentive to stay out of the slammer.
Question: what would you rather suck on - a deathstick on the outside, or some other stick on the inside?
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