No Smoking in California Jails

[daveshel]

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The headline is a bit misleading. Arnold merely signed the bill, didn't have anything to do with getting it passed. He was busy smoking cigars in his tent.

 

[lokni]

I think this is a good thing. An article in the OC Register today claimed that the state makes about $1,000,000 a year on tax revenues from the sale of cigs to inmates. However, the related health costs are at $280,000,000 a year. Prisons are meant to be a place of contemplation about past crimes, rehabilitation, and punishment. Not a place where people can get a buzz through chainsmoking day in and day out.

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: lokni
I think this is a good thing. An article in the OC Register today claimed that the state makes about $1,000,000 a year on tax revenues from the sale of cigs to inmates. However, the related health costs are at $280,000,000 a year. Prisons are meant to be a place of contemplation about past crimes, rehabilitation, and punishment. Not a place where people can get a buzz through chainsmoking day in and day out.

And measure that keeps others from involuntary smoking gets my support. I hate filtering people's smoke out of the air with my lungs. People should keep their addictions to themselves.