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Congressman Defends Tobacco Sales to Troops: 'Leave Us the Hell Alone'
Breitbart ^ | Oct. 8, 2014 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 10/08/2014 8:39:51 AM PDT by PROCON

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Thank you Congressman Hunter.

LEAVE THE MILITARY THE F**K ALONE!/rant off

1 posted on 10/08/2014 8:39:51 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Roger that. Ow Rah!


2 posted on 10/08/2014 8:41:23 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: PROCON

I find it rather odd that some folks are so focused on banning a completely legal thing.


3 posted on 10/08/2014 8:41:44 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: PROCON

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 ...


4 posted on 10/08/2014 8:43:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: PROCON

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..


5 posted on 10/08/2014 8:43:44 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: rjsimmon

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.


6 posted on 10/08/2014 8:44:48 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: rktman

I paid $2.50 for a carton of Marlboros in Vietnam in 1970 :-)


7 posted on 10/08/2014 8:45:18 AM PDT by PROCON (I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO TYRANNY!)
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To: rjsimmon

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!


8 posted on 10/08/2014 8:53:14 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: PROCON

Cigarettes bad, sex changes good in Obama’s 21st military!


9 posted on 10/08/2014 8:56:32 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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I paid $2.50 for a carton of Marlboros in Vietnam in 1970 :-)
= = = = = = = = = = = =
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............


10 posted on 10/08/2014 9:02:33 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) Close your eyes. Think of a place where your opinion may matter. GO THERE.)
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To: PROCON

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.


11 posted on 10/08/2014 9:13:52 AM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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Copy that, Little Bill!

Or a Marlboro, or a Bro had his Kools, or just a Winston!


12 posted on 10/08/2014 9:16:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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“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.”

In MA today that carton would cost $100.00.

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13 posted on 10/08/2014 9:18:48 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Little Bill

Your coming in lima charlie brother!


14 posted on 10/08/2014 9:19:08 AM PDT by PROCON (I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO TYRANNY!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Smokes with a Tampon on the end as we said in those days. My assistant Squad leader was a rather large Black guy from Cinci, he smoked Kools non filter, Cancer in a box, he laughed.
15 posted on 10/08/2014 9:25:46 AM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: PROCON

i paid 90 cents a carton right here in the us.in the 50s.


16 posted on 10/08/2014 9:32:01 AM PDT by old gringo
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To: rjsimmon

Banning is in the job description of all Democrats.


17 posted on 10/08/2014 9:41:58 AM PDT by billhilly (.Have you heard the latest Joe Biden whopper?)
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To: rjsimmon

Banning is in the job description of all Democrats.


18 posted on 10/08/2014 9:42:13 AM PDT by billhilly (.Have you heard the latest Joe Biden whopper?)
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To: PROCON

Boehner smokes like a chimney. Link it with a ban on smoking by members of Congress and poof, it’ll disappear.


19 posted on 10/08/2014 9:43:43 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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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.


20 posted on 10/08/2014 9:57:25 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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