Team Obama raising tobacco prices at U.S. military bases to curb smoking

Washington Times ^ | 4/27/16 | Carlo Muñoz

[Nachum]

The Pentagon is looking to raise the price of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco sold on U.S. military installations worldwide, in an attempt to ween U.S. service members from tobacco use. Defense Secretary Ash Carter codified the policy in an April 8th department-wide memorandum, which also expanded smoke-free areas on American military bases, according to Reuters. The new tobacco policy would increase prices on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco sold at U.S. military commissaries and post exchanges to match the price of tobacco products sold off base, which are subject to state and local taxes. Currently, tobacco products sold on U.S. bases

[Nachum]

Okay to die for yer country, but not to have a smoke.

[Blue Jays]

Some brave man or woman, in some sandy shi+hole someplace, and we are going to deny them cigarettes for crying out loud?

[upsdriver]

Wow, curbing smoking AND safer bullets? A soldier could live forever. Obama is a moron.

[Nachum]

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[PROCON]

Are they going to lower the price for tampons?

[CivilWarBrewing]

I guess our troops will have to settle for second-hand bomb smoke.

[Michael.SF.]

which also expanded smoke-free areas on American military bases

So it is not really a smoke free policy is it?

;)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What’s the old saying? When a soldier gets shot, the first things he want is a cigarette and his Mother.

[GreatRoad]

Doesn’t O smoke??

[Nachum]

“Doesn’t O smoke??”

Yeah, but nobody cares if he dies from it.

[nothingnew]

The she-man muslim communist is just evil. EVIL!

So are the others "below" him who support this crap against our protectors.

Rot in hell, all of them.

FMCDH(BITS)

[EagleUSA]

Just another way to p!ss all over the military AND steal more money from the American public. What goes around, comes around.

[Bob434]

he gets to spend $1.5 BILLION dollars of taxpayer money on himself and his family, so he doesn’t care how much cigarettes cost- He isn’t subject to the same draconian laws as he imposes on everyone else- Heck- he probably gets them free anyways-

[Don Corleone]

I guess the old $0.90 per carton in the ship's store is out eh?

[Will88]

The new tobacco policy would increase prices on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco sold at U.S. military commissaries and post exchanges to match the price of tobacco products sold off base, which are subject to state and local taxes.

The meddling, micromanaging POS just can't keep his ignorant self out of anything including those areas he knows nothing about. So what if some members of the military chose to smoke. It's always been so and tobacco has been tax free in the military and is considered a benefit. Don't need to be reducing benefits where the pay is still not all that great for the lower enlisted.

[bgill]

Next, they’ll pass out carrot sticks fresh from Moo’s garden and ban cigarettes altogether.

[DJ Taylor]

I quit smoking many years ago, but I remember back when I was a young grunt in Vietnam, I would go for months when the only fun I got out of life was smoking cigarettes and scratching my crotch rot.

[rlmorel]

I don’t smoke cigarettes. Don’t like em. Don’t see what they do for you.

But this SOB and his liberal allies make me want to light one up, just to piss them off.

[rlmorel]

Ugh. Crotch rot. Scratch until bloody. Ugh.

Thanks for serving, and welcome home, FRiend.

[longfellow]

This muslim administration is also charging people that do merchandise for the bases to use the EAGLE,GLOBE, and ANCHOR on product. Something the American people OWN! They think this is the NFL and you have to pay for the license of a team. These mother fn muslims should die.
I pray this president is loaded with AIDS.