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Quote by: Praxius but if you're gonna pull something physically addictive away from a prisoner, as it goes for human rights and such, don't you think there should be proper programs in the jails for helping them kick the habit to reduce suffering from withdraw? |
Recent studies have shown a far higher success rate for smokers who quit impulsively, rather than through programs that encourage the addicts "helplessness" and lack of self-sufficiency. I know first hand that the ill-effects of nicotine withdrawal are short lived and dissipate quickly. To dump money into prisoner addiction treatment will both waste taxpayer money even further on societies degenerates, as well as encourage their habit by injecting this "addiction disease" theory into their psyche.
The way you stop doing something is to STOP DOING IT! Not to continue to do it while learning how not to do it.
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Quote by: Praxius it's the outside that is beyond reason at this point. You're gonna have hundreds of smoking prisoners not being able to smoke, walking around outside surrounded by gaurds who are smoking, and trying to kick a habit in probably one of the not so great environments to be kicking a habit, having those watching over you shoving their smoking in your face everyday isn't going to improve anything. |
By this logic, watching the guards grab their lunch pail and head home for the day is somehow unfair as well. They have a far worse habit to tackle, the habit for a propensity to commit crime. Thats what they are in jail to address.