Navy Bans Tobacco Use on Its Submarine Fleet

nyt ^ | 6/20/10 | Thom Shanker

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — The smoking lamp is going out all across the Navy’s submarine fleet, where the mission to “run silent, run deep” now will be carried out by sailors ordered to run undersea operations without cigarettes, cigars or pipes.

This is the latest front in the long war against tobacco declared by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Their programs to help military personnel kick the smoking habit are intended to protect the health of the current force — and to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars a year in health care costs for those who have served, and smoked, in uniform.

[kelly4c]

Yeah, to be honest I never realized the effect smoke has on a non-smoker until I had to become one myself. I took it for granted because I never knew any better, I’d been a smoker since 12. I’m weird in that I actually like the smell, but I particularly feel sorry for all those people who might have been trying to quit and had to be bombarded by the stuff everywhere they went because when you are quitting and are around smoke/smokers it is very, very tempting and reminds you of it and makes a very difficult endeavor all the harder. So it is easier now that we don’t come in contact with it nearly as much...except for sometimes at work...since they enacted (IL) the rule of smoke at workplaces only being allowed outside the grounds now instead of having designated outside places to smoke throughout the hub they all congregate right outside the guardshack on break time, which is where we all have to enter to get into the building:(

[JouleZ]

“And what does an individuals’s weight have to do with their bowel movements?”
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You know. I know you know, so if you are really a Nam Vet don’t pretend you don’t know. My DH served so don’t lie.

[JouleZ]

“Cig smoke is hard on sound equipment Microphones and speakers especially.”
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Hummm, tell that to Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, The BeeGees, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin et al. Those artists recorded without fear of ruining sound equipment and in fact, made new sounds that still sell. Your arguement is worthless.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Hummm, tell that to Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, The BeeGees, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin et al. Those artists recorded without fear of ruining sound equipment and in fact, made new sounds that still sell. Your arguement is worthless."

Well I've been in the Music Business for 34 years which is longer than either Hank Williams, Janis Joplin or Patsy Cline lived. I've worked both sides of the mixing board in Live sound reproduction and Recording. Most of the professional Studios in my area haven't allowed Smoking in the control room for years due to the smoke's harsh effects on contacts and especially Microphone and Speaker cones.