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How Hard Should It Be for a Soldier to Get a Smoke?
nationalreview.com ^ | 10/10/2014 | Charles C W Cooke

Posted on 10/11/2014 10:42:07 AM PDT by rktman

The Defense Department wants to ban tobacco sales on bases and ships.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: military; smokers
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To: rktman
The serial sodamizers don't like the boyz smoking so ban smoking 1 /Sarc
This is the dumbest chit I've seen yet. Allow queers openly serve in the military, celebrate butt flocking day, and have all sorts of protections against "descrimination", but turn around and outlaw smoking because (unlike AIDS and all the other (literal) chit that queers spread around) smoking is harmful.
41 posted on 10/11/2014 11:17:23 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: DesertRhino

Please see my Comment #40.


42 posted on 10/11/2014 11:18:26 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Drango

The Seven Dwarves: I believe that nicotine is not addictive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUNk5meJHs


43 posted on 10/11/2014 11:19:52 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: zeestephen
Libertarian my butt.

People who pretend their desire to dictate how other people live and behave is "libertarian" are lying jerks.

44 posted on 10/11/2014 11:21:13 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: zeestephen
zeeg heil !
45 posted on 10/11/2014 11:22:38 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: rktman

I’m not quite sure which is better:
A drunken soldier or a smoke free soldier.

I thought one bullet does more damage than one cigarette. I may be wrong. oh ya, then there’s Agent Orange... hmm, yeah, soldiers shouldn’t smoke,it’s bad for their health LOL

PTSD, yup,much healthier than smoking cigarettes.

Just a thought....Maybe gay soldier shouldn’t be allowed to smoke.

Geez,if a man wants a smoke, give it him! After all, he’s fighting for his Country! Give him a cigar!


46 posted on 10/11/2014 11:24:37 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Brother Cracker
Times have changed...

One NEW warning on e-cigaretes, from Altria, maker of Marlboros, reads in part: “Nicotine is addictive and habit forming, and is very toxic by inhalation, in contact with the skin, or if swallowed.”

47 posted on 10/11/2014 11:26:11 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: JimRed

Buck and quarter/ctn when I was in.


48 posted on 10/11/2014 11:27:56 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: zeestephen
I think it is very cool how you demand control over the personal behavior of men and women who are willing to die for your right to say it.

Forgive me if I overlooked the obvious--which branch of the military did you serve?

49 posted on 10/11/2014 11:33:33 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: rktman
Cannabis OK, abortion OK, sodomy OK.

Only nicotine is evil.

So will soldiers soon be allowed cannibas?

50 posted on 10/11/2014 11:34:36 AM PDT by what's up
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To: rktman

Can’t they use a patch? /S


51 posted on 10/11/2014 11:34:38 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DesertRhino

He’s part of the cost/benefit gang, I guess. Very similar to the coming death panels, by the way.


52 posted on 10/11/2014 11:39:22 AM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: zeestephen
You should have a big problem with the latest attack on our military. Nicotine has given death threatened soldiers many a moral boost when they were in the trenches separated from friends and family and a warm fire while protecting people like you from danger.

Fewer smokers mean costs go down

And this is the very thinking of Michelle Obama as she deprives our kids of anything good to eat. The thinking is that depriving kids of food will make health costs go down. Social tinkering is WRONG! And ESPECIALLY when done to our soldiers.

53 posted on 10/11/2014 11:40:59 AM PDT by what's up
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To: JimRed

A carton of Salem in the 60’s in Bangkok could get you-Oh,wait that’s not allowed either!


54 posted on 10/11/2014 11:44:52 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: zeestephen

Today is Shabbat. I cannot reply properly to your idiotic post.


55 posted on 10/11/2014 11:46:40 AM PDT by wheat_grinder
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To: zeestephen

I agree. And in addition, smoking is nasty, filthy and disgusting.


56 posted on 10/11/2014 11:46:45 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: rktman
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57 posted on 10/11/2014 11:51:57 AM PDT by preacher (I am not a global warming hoax denier.)
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To: NautiNurse

“I” demand?

No - your employer, the DOD, demands this.

“My” response would be Libertarian, namely, take responsibility for my own choices.

Re: “which branch of the military did you serve?”

I’m 64.

What branch and what war do you think I served in?


58 posted on 10/11/2014 12:06:09 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

GFY


59 posted on 10/11/2014 12:10:02 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: molson209

likely another reason he doesnt want any non “official” photographers near him...

if we cant see em smoking....he’s “not” smoking..


60 posted on 10/11/2014 12:13:24 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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