NC Inmates May Soon Get Right to Vape… eCigs Made by RJR
This entry was posted in News Item on 08/14/14 by Steve K.
Here’s an interestingly nuanced story for you to digest. North Carolina recently passed a law banning smoking in the state’s jails. As you might imagine, this has caused some issues among the incarcerated. To combat the issues, the state is trying to pass a law to allow inmates to use e-cigarettes. Naturally, prohibitionists are up in arms since jail is as good a stop smoking plan as any for them.
That’s not the interesting part. Inmates will be limited to using a special kind of e-cigarette they can only buy from the prison commissary. And the company that happens to have the exclusive contract to make these special e-cigarettes? RJ Reynolds, which just happens to be headquartered in North Carolina.
In March of 2010, smoking was banned in jails across the state, which did more harm than good – employees at these facilities described the added difficulty of handling inmates dealing with nicotine withdrawal, which makes individuals more stressed and irritable. Many have been suggesting that e-cigarettes could be the best option for this problem. “Seventy-five to 80 percent of inmates smoke when they go into prison,”
Inmates would have to purchase specially made plastic e-cigarettes from the commissaries in their respective prisons – plastic, because an e-cigarette made of metal could be filed down to form a sharp weapon. To supply this new system, a subsidiary company of Reynolds American, RJR Vapor, will be manufacturing a new type of disposable e-cigarettes in factories in North Carolina.
http://stevevape.com/bill-will-allow-e-cigarettes-to-be-sold-to-inmates/
This entry was posted in News Item on 08/14/14 by Steve K.
Here’s an interestingly nuanced story for you to digest. North Carolina recently passed a law banning smoking in the state’s jails. As you might imagine, this has caused some issues among the incarcerated. To combat the issues, the state is trying to pass a law to allow inmates to use e-cigarettes. Naturally, prohibitionists are up in arms since jail is as good a stop smoking plan as any for them.
That’s not the interesting part. Inmates will be limited to using a special kind of e-cigarette they can only buy from the prison commissary. And the company that happens to have the exclusive contract to make these special e-cigarettes? RJ Reynolds, which just happens to be headquartered in North Carolina.
Inmates would have to purchase specially made plastic e-cigarettes from the commissaries in their respective prisons – plastic, because an e-cigarette made of metal could be filed down to form a sharp weapon. To supply this new system, a subsidiary company of Reynolds American, RJR Vapor, will be manufacturing a new type of disposable e-cigarettes in factories in North Carolina.
http://stevevape.com/bill-will-allow-e-cigarettes-to-be-sold-to-inmates/
For me personally I would long for my rights back and do everything to get them back, although I suppose this requires knowing what you are missing ? 
