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TOKZTLI

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Schwarzenegger bans smoking in prisons
Decision could save $280 million in related health care costs



SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who set up a tent outside his smoke-free state office to accommodate his taste for a good cigar, signed a bill Monday barring tobacco from state prisons.

The measure amends the state's penal code to bar tobacco products from prisons and youth correctional facilities. Violators are subject to a fine.

Supporters say the changes will help save the state money on health care and improve the health of 160,000 state inmates. Some parts of California's criminal justice system such as county jails have already banned smoking.

The state generated about $1 million in tobacco taxes and $370,000 in sales taxes by selling tobacco products to inmates last year.

Bill sponsor Tim Leslie, a Republican assemblyman, estimates that about half of California prisoners smoke, costing $280 million in related health care costs.
 
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Fucking California is a fucked up state law wise. Plus they voted a Austrian gov haha hes such a bitch. In prison you have to do whatever (as long as it hurts no one but you) to survive and cope. Prisoners are going to be going off what bitches.
 
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You can't smoke in county in CA...that shit is bullshit. I had to smoke a rollie and blow it down the toilet while I flushed and my cell got shook down...just so I could have a fuckin cigarette. How you gonna ban smoking from prison that is bullshit.
 
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Been Drinkin said:
(as long as it hurts no one but you) to survive and cope.
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TOKZTLI said:
about half of California prisoners smoke, costing $280 million in related health care costs.
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are they paying for their own healthcare????

if they are paying for their own haealth care coverage then i say let them smoke but it they arent ban the cigs.

we, the hard-working taxpayers are paying for them to have free health care, while many of us cant even afford our own healthcare
 
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Mcleanhatch said:
are they paying for their own healthcare????

if they are paying for their own haealth care coverage then i say let them smoke but it they arent ban the cigs.

we, the hard-working taxpayers are paying for them to have free health care, while many of us cant even afford our own healthcare
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So in essence the best thing for us to do in your chosen system is to go to jail...pure genius.
 
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TOKZTLI

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I agree with the measure but its going to be a volatile period inside the walls when most smokers go through the detoxifying effects of cold turkey tobacco withdrawal.
 
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Mcleanhatch said:
NEXT TIME READ BEFORE YOU POST. THIS^^^ MAKES ABSOLUTLEY NO SENSE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POST.
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Mclean is the perfect example of why rap is turning into trash. It's little Republican nerds like him that got rappers rappin about stupid shit to appeal to their MTV audience.

If you knew anything about Canadian health care, you would know it is universal...yet smoking is not banned in Canada. Maybe YOU should research before you post.
 
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RuThLeSs RiCk said:
Mclean is the perfect example of why rap is turning into trash. It's little Republican nerds like him that got rappers rappin about stupid shit to appeal to their MTV audience.

If you knew anything about Canadian health care, you would know it is universal...yet smoking is not banned in Canada. Maybe YOU should research before you post.
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thanks Rick ..
 
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RuThLeSs RiCk said:
If you knew anything about Canadian health care, you would know it is universal...yet smoking is not banned in Canada. Maybe YOU should research before you post.
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look here dipshit. this post has to do with CALIFORNIA STATE PRISONS and absolutley nothing to do with CANADA
 
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RuThLeSs RiCk said:
Mclean is the perfect example of why rap is turning into trash. It's little Republican nerds like him that got rappers rappin about stupid shit to appeal to their MTV audience.
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oh ya and by the way i no longer listen to rap music. the last CD of rap that i have bought is Lynch by Inch. and the only reason i bought that is because i had ALL his other CD's. but by the time that one came out i wasnt listening to rap at all anymore.

and as for the MTV part i also dont and never have watched MTV.
 
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@McleanHatch: if u werent ignorant and had any knowledge of the world outside of the U.S., u would know that Canada=Free Healthcare Country. So lets take it from a country that has had this for long long time, and apply it to the state prisons, which also have free healthcare (which is the main issue in this bill which has passed).
 
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