By Greg Kelton
The Advertiser
ADELAIDE, Australia — Prisoners in South Australia have been put on notice their smoking days are numbered, with smoking banned indoors by 2015. The Government, however, has warned there are “particular challenges in restricting smoking in the state’s prisons” and says a total smoking ban still is some time away.
New Zealand jails will go smoke-free in July in radical laws designed to make prisons healthier. To prepare addicted prisoners in the lead-up, the NZ Department of Corrections is trialling a bizarre national directive to supply inmates with two carrot sticks a day.
NZ prisons stopped selling cigarettes last week and, as of July 1, all tobacco products will become nationally prohibited items, or contraband.
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