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Saw this article in the news today, made me wonder about the absurdity of some peoples' choices. Read on. cratch: :roll:

Smoker opts for longer prison term
Canadian couldn't handle smoke-free jail
Updated: 1:50 p.m. ET March 02, 2004WINNIPEG, Manitoba - For a 73-year-old Canadian man, 20 months in a smoke-free jail looked just too long, so instead he took 24 months in a prison where he can smoke cigarettes.

Angelo Foti was sentenced to 20 months for shooting and wounding a man in his backyard who was trying to repossess a snowmobile sold to Foti’s son, the Winnipeg Free Press reported on Tuesday.

In court on Monday, Angelo Foti was agitated when he realized the sentence would mean he would be in a provincial jail, where smoking is banned, the newspaper said.

Foti’s lawyer pleaded for a 24-month sentence instead, which means the man will go to a federal prison, where smoking is allowed.

In accepting the longer term, Foti, a dedicated pack-a-day man, ignored the wishes of this family.

“Dad, they’re just cigarettes -- give them up. Quit smoking: you’ll be healthier,” his son Angelo Jr. said in court. “Just take the 20 months.”

hock: the things people will do to keep their vices....

-Jenna

i'm gonna opt for sad, very very sad......

Not only did he choose a path where he can smoke and continue his deadly habit, but he did it in a place where cigarettes are a form of currency and having something that someone else wants in that kind of environment cannot be benificial to ones health. He may be buying for more than himself and lung cancer will be the least of his worries.

SAD!! Sad sad sad!!

His own child even BEGGED him to give up smokes to get out of jail sooner, and he said NO.

i don't see any reason why they can't smoke in the jails. for god sakes, these guys/girls have nothing else. at least let them smoke. they aren't hurting anyone but themselves.

mark, it came about after prison guards complained that there was just too much smoke...at times they said it was as hazy as a bar in there. It was detrimental to their health, so the prison system phased smoking out of the buildings, and then banned it outdoors entirely.

I don't see anything wrong with having it outdoors, in a designated spot. It's possible to have a smoking spot that can be watched by prison guards, that's just laziness. It's just asinine to choose to be locked up 4 extra months just so you can smoke.

That is sad, but he will probably only get a 1 year tops.

farmerdan69 Wrote:i'm gonna opt for sad, very very sad......

Me too.......

farmerdan69 Wrote:i'm gonna opt for sad, very very sad......

Me too.......