# No Smoking Prison **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 11, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295 "2010-07-11T13:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/21 "2010-07-11T21:54:59Z")
I’ve seen people make alcohol in prison. I’ve never seen any prisoners trying to grow tobacco. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/22 "2010-07-11T22:08:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ve seen people make alcohol in prison. I’ve never seen any prisoners trying to grow tobacco. Yeah, I’ve attended to a few inmates with cases of “toilet hooch” poisoning. Metamucil is a favored ingredient in it, given its abundant sugar content. I’ve also read of inmates dying of nicotine poisoning, by ingesting nicotine pest killer, hoping to get a buzz off of it. I’m sure somewhere in the south, prisons once grew tobacco, and inmates cultivated their own personal plants… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/23 "2010-07-11T22:52:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ve seen people make alcohol in prison. 'Course it’s shank or be shanked. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/24 "2010-07-12T00:32:00Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Have you [seen](http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2010-03-21/122.jpg) her lately? Oh…my…God :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/25 "2010-07-12T00:58:39Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Oh…my…God :eek: Yes, she does in fact look 83 in that photo. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/26 "2010-07-12T01:31:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m sure somewhere in the south, prisons once grew tobacco, and inmates cultivated their own personal plants… The South might be the best area for growing tobacco, but you can cultivate it up North with some effort, too. My mom used to run a community garden in Cleveland, and one of her gardeners grew tobacco in his plot (she couldn’t find any laws against it, and I’m pretty sure she would have recognized if it were some other smokable plant). The bigger difference, I’m sure, would be that it’d be much harder to hide than alcohol: Tobacco plants are pretty bulky, and they’d have to be somewhere that gets sun, not hidden away in a toilet or under a bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/27 "2010-07-12T10:04:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > 'Course it’s shank or be shanked. Are you [del]shaw[/del] sure? ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295/28 "2010-07-12T11:31:26Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Have you [seen](http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2010-03-21/122.jpg) her lately? > [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Oh…my…God :eek: Not questioning the legitimacy of the source of that photograph, but it seems more like 5 hours in Photoshop. The following link shows some pictures of her at her recent hearing (July 6) [http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article\_1570186.php/Lindsay-Lohan-shunned-by-Hollywood](http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1570186.php/Lindsay-Lohan-shunned-by-Hollywood) Looks about 24 to me… Want to see some interesting aging? [http://picdit.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/a-20-year-old-model-photographed-as-if-she-were-10-20-30-40-50-and-60-years-old/](http://picdit.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/a-20-year-old-model-photographed-as-if-she-were-10-20-30-40-50-and-60-years-old/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-smoking-prison/546295.md?page=1)