Interesting!- Electronic cigarettes available to Putnam inmates

[Spazmelda]

Herald Citizen - White= C Electronic cigarettes available to Putnam inmates

 

[Petrodus]

The electronic cigarettes are good for a certain number of “doses” of nicotine.
When they run out, refills have to be purchased.

Ya gotta be kidding me ...

 

[2coils]

HAHA, see it will catch on. Pretty soon, if you want to use an e-cig, you'll have to take a trip to the clink!

 

[Vocalek]

When people quit smoking, they become, in the words of author David Krogh, "edgy, hostile, depressed, confused. Behold man." [Smoking, The Artificial Passion. 1991, W.H. Freeman and Company.]

The last thing any jailer wants is an irritable incarcerated population. Yet, many jails and prisons have become torture chambers for prisoners. I'm betting that violence increased when the no-smoking policies were implemented.

It's nice to see something sensible done about the situation.

 

[Spazmelda]

I can't imagine what I would be like if someone locked me away with no cigarettes, back when I was smoking.

I went to a conference one time in Boulder back when I was working on my graduate degree. I had maybe half a pack of cigarettes left, no access to a car, but thought I would be able to buy them at the gift shop. I finished what I had the first day/night and hit the gift shop the next morning. The kindly elderly lady told me they didn't sell cigarettes and said in a sing song voice, "I guess now would be a good time to quit right? Hahaha." I seriously envisioned myself ripping her head off and stuffing it back in the hole upside down. Eventually ended up scoring a ride into town and got some smokes, but the feeling of rage and despair I felt when forced to go without (as opposed to doing it of my own free will and with preparation and forethought) was just horrible. I was a wreck.