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Smoking Soldiers No More?

Posted by Sean on July 12, 2009

Study recommends total ban on smoking for soldiers – CNN.com.

This is a tough one.

How can we tell a soldier after being up for 20-some hours on duty protecting that which we treasure most they can’t have a cigarette?

That nicotine probably keeps him/her up long enough to endure. Maybe not a cigarette. It could be a chew of tobacco. Have you ever stood post for a 24hr period. Lives are in your hands?

Yep, I’m a huge non-smoking advocate

But, this is a difficult pill to swallow.

Hmm…

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11 Responses to “Smoking Soldiers No More?”

  1. [...] no secret how I feel about smoking. Just take a look here, here, here, here, here, here and here. (By the way.. I had no idea I had blogged so much about this [...]

  2. Jacinda said

    Let them smoke (I am a reformed smoker and think everyone should quit for health benefits) – but – how can we possibley ask these men and woman to put their life on the line – but not smoke.

  3. Jacinda said

    Let them smoke (I am a reformed smoker and think everyone should quit for health benefits) – but – how can we possibley ask these men and woman to put their life on the line – but not smoke.

  4. Caroline said

    Yeah, it’s tough. I take care of vets…how am I supposed to tell them that their 80 pack year history is killing them when it was originally the government that gave them cigs in the first place?

    I don’t.

  5. Caroline said

    Yeah, it’s tough. I take care of vets…how am I supposed to tell them that their 80 pack year history is killing them when it was originally the government that gave them cigs in the first place?

    I don’t.

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