УYou only make $5.90, $6.90 a day and to buy a pack of cigarettes for $7 (tax included, at the prison canteen), thatТs a big chunk of your money when you still got to buy food for yourself. They have food, but I wouldnТt recommend eating the food.Ф Money, Stewart says, is a big factor about incarcerated life. УPeople very often donТt have money to pay for free cigarettes and so they go into debt in the prison subculture. And if they canТt pay the debt or are faced with pretty heavy consequences, and/or forced to do things they might otherwise not prefer to do, they can get involved in violence or carry out the wishes of some prison gang leader that might get them in a lot of trouble,Ф he says. УThatТs the cost of addiction. In a lot of ways, while there might be some initial difficulties in tensions for a few days, we think (the total ban) is going to be a good thing overall for everyoneТs concern.Ф Meanwhile, CSC has spent over $1 million providing inmates smoking cessation therapies, including patches, nicotine gum and counselling. To prepare for riots in initial days, extra staff have also been brought in to prisons. All this, however, УIt is total hypocrisy, period,Ф says Arminda Mota, president of the 46,000-member smoking rights group Mychoice.ca. УThey are forcing inmates to quit a legal product, for which they pay taxes in jail,Ф she says. УTo me itТs puzzling. They have the right to vote but they donТt have the right to smoke, not even outside? This is a punishment and itТs also sending a message out to the general population by saying, СSmokers, watch out.ТФ