Posted on 10/08/2014 8:39:51 AM PDT by PROCON
California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter is fighting a potential ban on tobacco sales on military bases and ships.
The idea of a ban is currently under a department review, thanks to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. But Hunter, a Marine reservist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is already fighting the idea.
“It’s not curbed for anybody else. Why pick out the folks who choose of their own accord to fight for their country and serve their country, and punish them?”
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LEAVE THE MILITARY THE F**K ALONE!/rant off
Roger that. Ow Rah!
I find it rather odd that some folks are so focused on banning a completely legal thing.
Wow - I remember during the Reagan years, someone wanted Playboy and Penthouse out of the Exchanges, and the ACLU jumped right in to squash that idea ... now look ...
Congressman Duncan Hunter comes from a long line of American heroes..
His granddad was a decorated Marine in WWII
His Dad, also called Congressman Duncan Hunter was a decorated American soldier in Vietnam
and he himself is an American Marine who served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan..
Yes, the Dems are working furiously to legalize drugs and sodomy which are far more dangerous than cigarettes. Go figure.
Though I quit smoking many years ago, I can certainly understand the desire for a smoke crouched in a foxhole and under heavy enemy fire.
I paid $2.50 for a carton of Marlboros in Vietnam in 1970 :-)
I find it rather odd that some folks are so focused on banning a completely legal thing.
I’ve got a better idea of a legal thing to ban. Abortion!
Cigarettes bad, sex changes good in Obama’s 21st military!
I paid $2.50 for a carton of Marlboros in Vietnam in 1970 :-)
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Overpriced.....
Was paying .90 a carton in ‘62 OR .10 a pack if you couldn’t ‘afford’ the .90 and they had to break open a carton.
Amazing to go into a store and see butts going for a price that would have bought 5 give or take cartons....
That nostalgia out of the way, to rework an old ‘alcohol’ statement...
Shame your Government can send you off to fight what may be a meaningless war and then turn around and ‘treat’ you like a baby or child unable to make your own decisions AND, if you are lucky enough to get to cast a ballot, you are ‘lucky’ if it gets counted in a timely fashion.
Of course ‘they’ will say you volunteered but I can see even the ‘tolerance’ of todays more enlightened youth that when the fags, cross dressers and gender confused people start filling their ranks.
I say ‘more enlightened youth’ in the respect that in todays world, people are ‘taught’ to be more tolerant etc to others ‘different’ than themselves at a much earlier age.
Then again, these are OUR kids and grandkids so............
I paid a $1.30 in 1965.
I would like to know, from VN Vets, how good a Camel tasted after some gooks spent the day trying to give your parents a $10,000 death benefit.
I know it tasted G*d damned good to lay back, after the shakes, and inhale Turkish Tobacco while your A$$ hole relaxed.
I know this a rather crude post and JR can pull it if he wants but I can only report what I felt.
Copy that, Little Bill!
Or a Marlboro, or a Bro had his Kools, or just a Winston!
“Was paying .90 a carton in ‘62 OR .10 a pack if you couldn’t ‘afford’ the .90 and they had to break open a carton.”
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In MA today that carton would cost $100.00.
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Your coming in lima charlie brother!
i paid 90 cents a carton right here in the us.in the 50s.
Banning is in the job description of all Democrats.
Banning is in the job description of all Democrats.
Boehner smokes like a chimney. Link it with a ban on smoking by members of Congress and poof, it’ll disappear.
WHAT? If I remember correctly they were $2.50/ctn on base but when we went to sea they were $1.25/ct. They’re almost $1.25/cig now. LOL! Well, not quite. About 30 cents/cig in NV currently.
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