"For DoD, this equates to an estimated 175,000 current Active Duty Service members who will die from smoking..."
Very similar language used by leftists when they went after diesel engines and coal fired power plants...nothing to support their allegations...just some numbers pulled completely out of their collective a$$es and the nanny staters run with it...
Oh wait...
I know math is hard...No one is saying they only die as active duty members it’s the size of the population pool, smoking kills them when they are inactive too.
About half of all smokers die from smoking per the DoD memo.
I think 30% of military members smoke...Therefore 15% of the military will die from smoking. Active or inactive.