If you don’t understand population pools, I can’t explain it to you. Do you also agree with CSM that smoking kills zero troops?
Follow up question, for those troops who smoke, how many are addicts?
How many are alcoholics?
I’ll bet you a fat, crispy fried donut that many more die from alcohol than smoking while on ACTIVE DUTY.
You’re dodging and weaving now...that memo is pure crap and you hitched your wagon to it...
A military troop is only made up of Active Military members. Retirees are excluded from the definition of that term. What we have been told for years is that “smoking kills” after many years of smoking and “ends lives sooner than they otherwise would have ended.”
How many years is the average for each “troop” to serve? My bet would be somewhere in the 6-8 year range, however imagine that every active duty member served until they were retirement eligible and smoked the entire time. That still would not be enough time for them to “die from smoking.”
So, some percentage of troops smoke, but they are no longer a “troop” well before any diseases would have been developed from smoking. Therefore, smoking kills zero percent of the troops.
Unless one is a demagague that changes definitions, rejects logic/reason, and tells lies in order to advance an ideology.
“Follow up question, for those troops who smoke, how many are addicts?”
Nearly 100% of them. Those that are not addicts are discharged. Some of the addicts are addicted to alcohol, some are addicted to coffee, some are addicted to food, some are addicted to physical fitness, some are addicted to range time, some are addicted to starching uniforms, some are addicted to keeping clean quarters and some are even addicted to bossing others around.
The Army trains addicts, it is their job to create a mechanical human being that must perform tasks in 4 step processes when confronted with stressful situations. I’ll assume the Navy, Marines and Air Force train in the same manner.