Pentagon urges a tobacco free military

**Fisherking** · 07-12-2009, 08:40

The whole cost issue is also bogus!

Who has lung cancer or emphysema between 18 and 45. What are their costs?

If they die early in retirement, doesn’t that save money?

While a pack of cigarettes cost $0.50 to make and $0.50 profit the rest goes to government.

In the case of the military the extra money goes directly into their coffers since they were ordered to raise the price to the prevailing civilian price back in the early 1990s.

The impact on the troops is always ignored by people who don’t know what they have to deal with...