Pentagon’s War on Tobacco Fails

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 6, 2015 | Bill McMorris

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

3M (= Making Marines Miserable) Nanny State PING!

[Graybeard58]

F.R.’s resident smoke Nazi is gonna love this.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

When did DOD take cigarettes out of C-rats?

What about Wrigley's gum?

Condoms?

Never mind, forget the condoms.

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[JRandomFreeper]

Will the person that closes my coffin make sure the last cigarette is extinguished?

Never mind, I'm slated for cremation anyway.

/johnny

[M Kehoe]

Found it, 1975. Hey, I read the thread, that's rare.

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[cripplecreek]

We’ll hose you down with alcohol.

[Resolute Conservative]

In other news buggering your fellow member is encouraged.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm ok with that. ;)

/johnny

[Bob]

You actually read the article???? Doesn’t FR have rules against doing that sort of thing? :=)

[knarf]

I haven't read the entire article but, as a former smoker with emphysema, I agree that smoking is terrible and wicked and deadly, but it is also no worse nor less than alcohol or liberalism.

My doctor says that because I quit, I can expect 10-15 years easily (he's probably lying, but I feel good about life, anyway) and I'mm 66 so 76 - 80 ain't a bad run.

Having said all that ... NO power should force a smoking/no smoking rule on those that smoke.

In '65, when I enlisted until ''67 at discharge, though there were (as I recall ... but no one was concerned about this at the tiime, so I wasn't paying to much attention to numbers) .. many smokers ... I never ... repeat .. never heard anyone say, "Hey, blow that shit some other way" or "Man, you know those things'll KILL ya', DON'cha'?"

Cigarettes were an accepted element of our culture both military and civilian.

I wish I had never smoked
I'm glad I stopped

No one needed to order me (which I would have rebelled anyway), and no one should have that authority.

[M Kehoe]

Doesn’t FR have rules against doing that sort of thing?

Busted!

Hope you are doing well.

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[jumpingcholla34]

My Dad (32nd Infantry Division, New Guinea) took up smoking when he got to the combat zone and gave it up when he came home. He said that the cigs were about the only comfort and the only stress reliever they had, and that the troops would have managed a day without food better than a day without tobacco.

[SZonian]

There is more truth in your snark than you might have believed...

[familyop]

Give soldiers plenty of sleep, and they’ll stay off the cigarettes after initial training.

[Little humor there for the retards. Cigarettes are a momentary crutch for exhaustion.]

[NEMDF]

Our three sons, all Marines, served in Iraq. All smoked while they were active duty and deployed. All three quit shortly after being home for good.

[TigersEye]

Soldiers are advised to quit for financial reasons. “1 pack a day a year is over $1,900!” And it’s about to get more expensive thanks to Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.)

Reading this one might think Turban Durbin was a staff officer for Adolph Hitler or Joe Stalin or Mao TseDong or Pol Pot.

[SandRat]

It’s FAILED ever sonce 1975!!!

[DuncanWaring]

“Smoking is not a stress relief,” he said. The DOD recommends other methods for dealing with the horrors of war. Instead of lighting up, troops should “press your fingers between your eyes and above your nose. Hold for 30 seconds.”

Apparently this guy didn't get the word:

[Blue Collar Christian]

Our military personnel will not become ill from smoking while in their military careers. They will be subject to the death panels when it is determined that tobacco users should be among the first patients to be rejected for expensive treatments.