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View Poll Results: Should the military be tobacco free
Yes, make the military tobacco free. 6 12.24%
No, leave them alone. 39 79.59%
Something else. 'Splain please 0 0%
GAH 4 8.16%
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Thread: Pentagon urges a tobacco free military
drone 16:54 07-21-2009
Originally Posted by Centurion1:
I thought smoking wasn't allowed on duty. For instance when my dad was an s-3 pilot back in well from 70's to the 90's and they smoked as soon as they were out of the plane. My father would never have smoked if he hadn't joined the military.
Smoking would never be allowed on flights (at least in a crew cabin) due to the oxygen supply system.

Anyhoo, Gates has said that it will not ban smoking for the troops. Smart move, since the effects of nicotine withdrawal would probably increase the civilian casualty rate.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/us....ref=newssearch

Edit-> Gah! Beaten by the prosimian

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