--- In [email protected], "Nigel Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's right. There is also an exemption for places of work where > people also live such as prisons and secure hospitals, I believe. > > Both of these exemptions were argued for by the unions that represent > the relevant workers. > > -- This discussion goes more and more off topic but for my two penneth I was told by the Gov'nor of Winson Green that it was very complex as it was both a job location and a home. If you ever get banged up tell them you smoke. Non smokers will be made to share cells, smokers will, if there is space, have a cell of their own. The logic being that a prisoner can smoke in their cell but not in the shared areas of the prison (where the officers work). If they make smokers share it could put a 10 a day man with a 30 a day man and years later HMG will face claims from the 10 a day man that he contracted cancer by passive smoke from the 30 a day man. If officers want to enter the cell of a smoker they must knock on the door, ask that he puts out his cigarette and that he opens the window, then wait for a predetermined time for the smoke to clear a little then they can enter the cell (to conduct their surprise search for the mobile phone that has by now been secreted up the back passage). Perhaps if prisons were made non-smoking it would be more of a deterent? Anyway, drugs and mobiles are banned but they still get into jails despite that.
Clive
