I'd hate to be a prison guard in Ohio

[still_me]

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/18838756/detail.html

Man, oh man. I hope they are handing out nicotine patches.

[jessiehannan]

Poor guards! Or some nicotine gum at the very least!

[Givebac]

My brother is in prison in Ohio. I know it would cost money but I wish they had done something to help the inmates quit smoking or using chew.

[Bohemian]

How will they enforce that when they can't even stop people from smuggling in and doing hard street drugs in prison?

I remember when dh quit smoking a couple years after we moved in together. He quit cold turkey and he was so hard to be around for about 6 weeks that I was literally ready to split up and have him move out. I'm glad he quit though.

I foresee lots of fighting and violence if then can enforce this.

[MrsKitty]

I don't see this going over too well :S

[JudyJudyJudy]

It doesn't sound like it was handled well. I wonder if they were given advance notice and had offers to help them break the addiction.

State officials said the ban will help deal with costs involving long-term health care for inmates who smoke.
What about the inmates or workers who don't smoke but were having to suck it up second-hand?

[QuiltyConscience]

Federal prisons went smoke-free( tobacco free, actually) a few years ago. Inmates had a year notice in advance. To DH' knowledge, there wasn't any rioting. Some grumpy inmates, but they got over it.

[still_me]

This is going to come across as sexist, but... I wonder how the women prisons are handling this. Women usually cycle together if they are close to each other, so a bunch of women on their periods, frustration (from the environment), and no cigs? Oy.

[bocarioja]

Funny... I know a guy who used to volunteer at my work. He broke into a gas station down the road and stole over $2500 of cig cartons. He was caught because... well, he drove an El Camino. :happy:

He was sentenced to 4 years. He was a two pack a day smoker.

He he.

El Camino.

[intokermit]

Kansas prisons have been smoke free for years, and it's a huge smuggling business for them. It won't stop the inmates from smoking, they just get more creative. And no, they don't give them any gum or patches to help.

[JudyJudyJudy]

When some of our schools in Georgia went smoke-free (they went smoke-free before the entire state did), we had teachers sneaking around to smoke. I hated that the broiler room, a favorite smoking place, was right beside my classroom, and I hated that one teacher thought it was a good idea to shit and smoke at the same time. I ended up having to use the students' restroom.