[Hank Rearden]

That's 60 cigs a day. Non combat day of 8 hours sleep leaves 16 hours a day = about 4 cigs each hour or one every 15 minute. I'd say he's definitely a chain smoker.

At one every 15 minutes average, and what? 5-10 mins/cig, when is he not smoking?

And by the time he gets back to civvie life, he's looking at a $400/month habit.

We should be sending the kid nicotine patches, not smokes!

[mel]

My boss told me that he smoked cigs in high school, his mother was constantly after him to stop.He told me that one the airplane going to Vietnam, he decided to quit and hasn't had once since. I thought gee whiz, that is when I'd be puffing like a chimney.