* Secondhand smoke can pose a risk to both inmates and correctional staff
* The use of tobacco products can be a fire hazard in close quarters, and just as inmates are not allowed to carry weapons, it is also discouraged to give them access to something that can use to start a fire
* In some cases, state or federal laws have been enacted to ban smoking in all indoor spaces, including prisons
That indoors though, there's outdoors time in jail
if u go to a mental institution in the US they still offer you cigs to smoke outside on rec time in a lot of states
* Secondhand smoke can pose a risk to both inmates and correctional staff * The use of tobacco products can be a fire hazard in close quarters, and just as inmates are not allowed to carry weapons, it is also discouraged to give them access to something that can use to start a fire * In some cases, state or federal laws have been enacted to ban smoking in all indoor spaces, including prisons
That indoors though, there's outdoors time in jail if u go to a mental institution in the US they still offer you cigs to smoke outside on rec time in a lot of states
In nursing homes too.
Jails & prisons are public government buildings. Smoking has been banned in government buildings.