Smoking crims

Prisons are going to be smokefree by this time next year.  This is apparently to protect staff and nonsmoking prisoners from the harm of passive smoking.  Fair enough on their behalf but why does it have to be all or nothing?  Can’t they just make a smoking area?  It seems simple enough.  Prisoners would cut down on their smoking and nonsmokers could make the choice to avoid the smoking area.  Smoking is terrible and slowly kills you and what not but people should still be able to decide for themselves if they want to do it.  Either make it illegal to sell tobacco and put big tobacco out of business or be reasonable in how smoking restrictions are implemented.  This sort of paternalism is precisely what people complain about the left doing.  It just seems disingenuous to me.  I wonder what the connection is between this and prison privitisation. Are the new prison owners looking to avoid being sued by staff who get smoking-related diseases?  New Zealanders have a blood lust towards its prison population that worries me.  It’s on the scale of emotion that drew people to public hangings and floggings in less civilised times.