At the military recruiter office:
Recruiter: “Do you smoke?”
Prospective GI: “Yes”
Recruiter: “Sorry, we can’t use you”
Contrast to:
Recruiter: “Are you now or have you ever smoked a guy’s penis or packed fudge?”
Prospective GI: “Yeth, I have and you can’t athsk me that. Where’s my lawyer?”
Recruiter: “Welcome aboard”
We are so screwed.
I don’t want a miltary where Marlboro smokers are jailed and pole smokers welcome with open arms.
Years ago the powers that be decided that there are some functions that soldiers will not be doing even in a combat zone. Civilians have PX privileges in a CZ. So civilians have cigs mailed. If anyone thinks an OIC is going to let a civilian have access to smokes in a CZ and not let war fighters have access to the same are crazy.