Navy Bans Tobacco Use on Its Submarine Fleet

nyt ^ | 6/20/10 | Thom Shanker

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — The smoking lamp is going out all across the Navy’s submarine fleet, where the mission to “run silent, run deep” now will be carried out by sailors ordered to run undersea operations without cigarettes, cigars or pipes.

This is the latest front in the long war against tobacco declared by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Their programs to help military personnel kick the smoking habit are intended to protect the health of the current force — and to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars a year in health care costs for those who have served, and smoked, in uniform.

[Fido969]

Now if they want a smoke they’ll have to go outside.

[Nachum]

Screen door in a submarine?

[maxsand]

Does that mean no rum either?

[Crim]

Smoke Nazi’s...

Sorry..cant smoke on a death dealing war machine carrying nuclear warheads targeted by the enemy...it’s just too dangerous...

[ASA Vet]

The new female submarine crew members will smoke.

[Deagle]

I hope that the 25% of officers that smoke decide to leave the Navy. Nothing short of rebellion will cause the smoking police to give it up. Of course, once they get out, they will put up with worse nonsense with their private jobs.

Sure glad I’m retired and don’t have to put up with their carp anymore...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Does that mean no rum either?

Yes, but it will be more than made up for in buggery.

[TXnMA]

Even the equipment will benefit from this regulation.

I used to demonstrate which cubicles in our office had smokers in them: I'd spray Windex Foam on the glass. In smokers' cubicles, it would turn yellow-brown as it ran down the glass...

[norraad]

Those tars, etc., lay on circuit boards etc., and make electronics run hotter and sometimes out of spec..

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for the input, Adolf.

[Pontiac]

Their programs to help military personnel kick the smoking habit are intended to protect the health of the current force — and to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars a year in health care costs for those who have served, and smoked, in uniform.

OKAY

I guess we will trade lung cancer for Mouth, tongue, jaw, stomach and esophageal cancers as navel personnel swap smoking tobacco for smokeless tobacco (snuff and chewing tobacco).

[Deagle]

Well, if that occurred, I would say that you or they did not do their cleaning as required by the Navy or any other branch. Maybe you were part of a different military than I was. We had to clean every day... Maybe that is the problem, not smoking...

[TXnMA]

Goebbels, you may extinguish your smokes in your place that is devoid of solar radiation......

[hosepipe]

The Navy is stopping smoking on Subs.. BUT importing baby factory’s to be ship MATES... Some idiot in charge of the Navy...

[TXnMA]

That happened to be in industry...

[Myrddin]

PacBell built a new data center in San Diego in 1983. The cafeteria floor space was split between smoking and non-smoking. By mid-1985, the ceilings on the smoking side were yellowish-brown. The air intakes on the ceiling were the same way. On the "office floors", there was a designated smoking room. Inside of 6 months, not even the smokers would enter those rooms. The janitorial staff was explicitly directly not to leave the doors open to the office working space as the stench was unbearable. Eventually, the whole building was declared non-smoking and some very expensive renovation took place to make the smoking areas acceptable for use again.

[Deagle]

Yes, I realized that after I posted... I can imagine that is true in most of industry. Sorry for jumping the gun... I just get a bit antagonistic regarding a legal substance...

I do know that it causes some problems...it just should not be taken to the extremes that is has...

[AlaskaErik]

The Navy is stopping smoking on Subs.. BUT importing baby factory’s to be ship MATES... Some idiot in charge of the Navy...

This was politically motivated by B Hussein. No sane Admiral would put women on a sub.

[Deagle]

Well you have to keep those Navy duds happy... Sorry, just another one of those PC things that will cause problems that they will stick under that over bulging rug...