3M (= Making Marines Miserable) Nanny State PING!
F.R.’s resident smoke Nazi is gonna love this.
Never mind, I'm slated for cremation anyway.
/johnny
In other news buggering your fellow member is encouraged.
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.
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.
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.]
Reading this one might think Turban Durbin was a staff officer for Adolph Hitler or Joe Stalin or Mao TseDong or Pol Pot.
It’s FAILED ever sonce 1975!!!
Apparently this guy didn't get the word:
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.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.