- Curb all of your vices before you attack anyone else's
Posted on 07/10/2009 12:07:18 PM PDT by Jean S
Link only: Ban on tobacco urged in military
Man, every infantryman I know dipped at one time or another...good luck with that.
In combat, that’s the LEAST of their worries.
IDIOT administration.
They won’t ban the sale of porn in the BX why in the world would they all of a sudden ban the legal product of tobacco?
Good luck.........
It’s okay for the Comander in Chief to smoke but not the front line soldier. Brilliant.
I would SO want to see him try to relieve one of our soldiers of his Marlboros, or of his chew.
F*** the nannystaters and the smoke nazis
Go to Flight Deck Control on a CV between launches & recoveries, and you’ll see smoke so thick the Handler can’t see the Ouija board! Every warrant, chief, & flight deck director lighted up.
Watch the recruiters close up shop. That’s what the big-O is hoping for.
So they ban smoking. What are they going to do if someone is caught smoking? Cut off a hand? That would be the Kenyan way.
Assign a nanny to every platoon. Stupid-asses govern us! Why not make everyone else in the country quit first? All the liberals want to do is screw over the military. They hate them.
No word yet on trying to save military healthcare dollars but getting rid of the homosexuals. I don't think we'll see that "study."
They did say GIs aren’t allowed to mess around with hookers.
The navy banned tobacco on subs, wonder if this is the reason for the uptick in accidents.
Tobacco keeps you alert when you are exhausted. It is a stimulant in extreme conditions and heightens your senses.
I wonder how many will die because of this.
Allowed in the service to our country:
Tobacco . . . no
Homosexuality . . . yes
Funny . . . GIs smoked in every war we won . . . What a crock of $hit!. What an absolute crock os $hit. Just think, if they were in prison, they’d be able to smoke! What are we, nuts, or what!!!!!
Now, wait a minute . . . Obama, our Kenyan-born, illegal alien, so called commander-in-chief smokes . . . in our White House, no less . . . so it’s ok for the supposed commander-in-chief (who, by the way, doesn’t even have a Selective Service Number), but it’s not ok for our GIs!
Go ahead, demoralize and screw with the morale of 1 in every 3 military Troops. I mean, it’s only 120* where they are fighting for your filthy dumb a$$ and they could use some more stress.
Fabulous. As a Captain, I’d have to subdivide my berthing to accommodate up to FIVE separate genders, to no good military end.
I could catch sailor’s popping each other in the stern, without using a prophylactic, and apparently that would all be OK.
However, put a dip in and get ‘Conduct Unbecoming’?
Right.
BTW, Hitler tried to get the German people to stop smoking, but smoking increased in spite of anti-smoking efforts. If the original anti-smoking Nazis couldn't do it (and they were FAR more ruthless in their methods), I seriously doubt you're gonna get the American military man to do it.
I think the whole anti-smoking campaign was started by liberals because every knows they're soft on illicit drugs.
Excellent point! But the most important is the guys and gals who volunteer to serve our country should be allowed to smoke, damn the alledged extra cost to the VA!
Very stupid move.
If I remember correctly Parkinson’s Disease is strictly a non smokers disease..
What despicable creatures this cretin and his fellow thugs are; They refined the rape of our national culture and economy to an art form.
God Save the United States of America — from itself !!!
Just watch what they do once they get control of everybody's health insurance.
This is how they'll get people to give up their guns. Fed.gov will decree that guns in homes are health hazards and they'll either jack up premiums or refuse to cover you at all.
People will give up their guns because they'll need health care.
They want to take away Dont ask , Dont tell and ban smoking.
They dont want GI’s smoking cigarettes, they want them smoking the Skin flute.
That seems pretty clear to me.
How long do the troops have to quit smoking before they get drummed out? A third of the active military smokes. The Moonbats are trying a new way to drive Dog Faces out and bring in their own.
In the meantime, the anti-smoking Nazis
Another benefit of nicotine is that it’s an appetite suppresant. I remember when C rats came with a 5-pack of smokes in the box. You can bet that the tangoes won’t stop shooting just because it’s chow time.
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how can they ban porn in The Bronx? there would be a lot of p-ssed off homeys!
Q: What are you soldiers doing back there in that darkened room?
A: We are performing anal sex on one another.
Well thank goodness y’all aren’t smoking those nasty cigarettes.
If I remember correctly Parkinson’s Disease is strictly a non smokers disease..
I am not sure about that. I swear I believe that Michael J. Fox smoked at one time and may even still.
Years and years ago, my husband and I went camping way up north in WI. My brother-in-law was an ex-Marine, he did two tours in ‘Nam. We were really roughing it, we planned on living off of the c-rations he gave us and the fish we caught. We had both decided to quit smoking (I was 3 months pregnant) so we didn’t bring any cigs. The first evening we opened the rations and found a 5 pack of Marlboros. Needless to say, we ended up opening up all the rations for the cigarettes.
My son turned out ok, he’s 6’3’’ and teaches math and physics at an exclusive private school.
Oh, and I caught 7 walleye on that trip.
F.O.!
You've already screwed us enough with General Order #1. We can't even have eggs made over-easy because of some nanny-statist.
What’s next from the prissy Obama scumbags, an assault weapons ban?
Booze and tobacco are bad for GI’s trying to unwind and relax, but addictive drugs are good for them to take to relax. Sure ain’t the Army I enlisted in 36 years ago.
That's the old navy. I was perusing some old cruisebooks in the library onboard Ike smiling at the photos of smoldering ashtrays in the workspaces. Not anymore.
Today's modern CVN has two underway smoking sponsons for E-6 and below and one for E-7 and above on the stbd side hanger deck. Everyone smokes on the portside catwalks under the flightdeck while in port.
After GQ secures, the line for the smokepits stretches across the hanger bay! I love the smokepits. That's where all the good gossip takes place.
F*** the nannystaters and the smoke nazis
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That’s right. Elitist, control bastards. Another way to undermine the moral of the troops.
The answer to that is “no workee, no stripes”. It’s a simple rule that I understood as a sergeant and remembered as an officer.
This issue came around several times during my military career and it always died or fell off the scope pretty quickly.
Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said the department supports a smoke-free military
You're fired, b***ch.
They’ve already disenfranchised them. Now they want to take away their smokes. Next they’ll be taking away their weapons.
“the so-called veterans”
How can one be a “so-called veteran”? I assume that they have to prove they served.
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