[mmercier]

When you are risking a shot through the hat a smoke is the least of your worries.

In fact, a smoke is likely the one thing you desire when facing death.

They usually offer a condemned man a smoke before execution, it would not surprise me to see the nanny state deny such a small pleasure those who put their life on the line to preserve their useless arses.

This post is a joke, designed to incite.

[johnb838]

They usually offer a condemned man a smoke before execution

On the same grounds that they carefully sterilize the injection site for the lethal injection, I'm surprised they don't refuse the condemned man a cigarette on the grounds that it may be bad for his health.

Or that smoking is not permitted on state property.