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Study Recommends Military Smoking Ban

By Chris Lawrence
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CNN
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WASHINGTON (July 12) -- You've seen the iconic picture of a soldier with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, but that could soon be a thing of the past.
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2009-07-12 07:40:17

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Newsgro5

06:05 PMAug 03 2009

And we try to convince our enemies to smoke in the war zone because it makes it easier for the snipers thermal imaging to find and shoot.

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Dittodogs

01:54 PMJul 16 2009

Honestly, I can't believe what I'm reading. Has this country gone crazy or what?While the pinheads at the Pentagon go home and smoke, they want to tell our soldiers that they can't. Oh pleeze. These people put their lives on the line for our country and they have the gall to want to ban the only thing that keeps many of them going. This is just plain madness.

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SteveC2618

02:36 PMJul 14 2009

Ok I'm fighting for my country and killing people .You think you have the right to say I can't smoke while getting shot at. Jive me a break. Spend my Tax dollars on better things

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LLB1256

11:46 AMJul 14 2009

Not true Sg unknownCigs cost the same on base as off base. Guess your not Military! Get the facts before you start talking about what the Military has!!!!

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LLB1256

11:39 AMJul 14 2009

Smoke if you want! This country is getting so over run by the government.....it's starting to smell!!!

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SHOCFACTER1

02:51 AMJul 14 2009

You know what, If a person wants to be an idiot and smoke, I guess OVER THERE is the best place for it. Let them smoke OVER THERE. As long as they are forcing non smokers to have to inhale their crap say like in the barracks or somthing like that then more power to them. I agree with most on here. Smoking is the last thing you have to worry about in the middle of combat, OVER THERE. Over HERE however, I hope the pass a law making tabacco just as illegal as MJ. As a matter of fact MJ should be legal and tabacco shouldn't. At least one can use a vaporizer with MJ and just get all of the good stuff without ANY of the bad stuff that comes along with the smoke.

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NoliMendoza

04:57 PMJul 13 2009

Wow! Any idiot in the Pentagon that agrees with this ban has never been in combat. I have never, do not, and will never smoke. But, as an American - I uphold the right for somone who chooses to smoke depsite the full knowledge that it is bad for his/her health... and folks... I am a doctor. I was in Iraq in 2003, serving along side some of the bravest men and women of our armed forces. Stress is stress and if lighting up can relieve a little bit - then so be it. Banning smoking in the military is a mistake; just like banning smoking in bars! I like what some else wrote... Washington thinks that smoking a cigarette is more dangerous that getting shot at, or having mortar or artillery rounds land nearby!!!

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JustSaNhi

04:33 PMJul 13 2009

Obama smokes will he have to quit too

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Irishrdnkrobert

03:47 PMJul 13 2009

are they trying to say that smoking is bad for your health but bullets and bombs are'nt?

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Solaris DaWay

03:42 PMJul 13 2009

Well we have been polluting the air with auto exhaust for more than 150 years now and we want to start by banning cigarettes??!!! WTF Are we trying to become the biggest idiots in the universe or Waht!!! Lets sterilize the bullets too so there are not as many infections in our enemies too!!! MORONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fourth graders could run this country better !!

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You\'ve seen the iconic picture of a soldier with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, but that could soon be a thing of the past.