Can you smoke in prison

Can you smoke in prison

Can you smoke in prison

Are prisoners allowed to smoke in prison? You can not smoke in prison. Prisons across england have now become a Smoke Free zone and you can not buy tobacco on the canteen inside prison.

The Health and Social Care Select Committee saw the final 2 prisons become smoke free on 30th April 2018 making the UK prison system the largest smoke free prison estate in the whole of western europe.

It was all part of a drive from the public health in regards to concerns of the welfare and health of the prisoners.

Due to second hand smoke and the confined spaces and shared cells in prisons in the UK. Specially as the statistics of people who smoke in prison are much higher than the UK average. 80% of prisoners were smokers.

 

smoking in prison

can you smoke in prison?

Instead, the prison offer a vape option. On the canteen you can buy a vape pen and the vape capsules.

Tobacco is still found inside prisons on the black market at an extremely high cost. Many prisoners take to modifying the vape pens into a lighter (which were also banned the same time as smoking) to be able to light up.

Vape capsules are also now used as a currency inside prison to trade for illicit and other items inside the prison.

Prison violence for tobacco is also quite high due to the demand and scarcity of the product.