Smoking Ban May Strike Military

[bcleven]

One more right that may be checked off the list soon.

I don't know how realistic it is for them to push this through. I'm really interested in hearing how the military guys here feel about this.

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[Winchest55]

Please do not say smoking is a right. smoking should be banned in all public areas where there are other people.

 

[bcleven]

I said it.

Thank you for editing the caps.

 

[Winchest55]

Yes sorry about the all caps. No harm intended just throwing out my opinion which probably is not worth much anyway.

 

[techres]

People who are willing to take a bullet or mortar to secure my liberty should get to smoke, they just should not be allowed to pay for them.

The smokes should be free.

 

[Joe Williams]

That'll go over like a lead balloon, I'm sure.

 

[Winchest55]

I think you are right to a degree. If you are around people or someone who does not care if you smoke then smoke away. I do not think someone should have the right to harm someone else with there smoke.

 

[MoparMan]

People who are willing to take a bullet or mortar to secure my liberty should get to smoke, they just should not be allowed to pay for them.

The smokes should be free.

Thank you for we should still pay for them just as any other person i believe. It's the career we choose.

BTW the way this way this stop smoking ban is taken place everywhere this article doesnt supprise me. Its another case where someone is trying to choose what is the most healthiest decision in their opinion.

 

[level.eleven]

Ugh...so this is offered up by the Pentagon. Come on, Washington, keep the troops happy. Don't mess with the little pleasures they may enjoy while doing their job.

On a lighter note, if I were a foreign soldier I wouldn't want to see this ban go through. Think of all the smokes you would be asked to bum during these joint operations!

 

[MoparMan]

I dont like smoke in a closed environment without circulation but in an outside environment i dont mind it.

 

[Winchest55]

If you are outside and not right next to someone then it may be fine. I guess i am talking about close up like a store or restaurant. Even outside it will affect others.

 

[MoparMan]

For instance, I smoke, and in a restaurant i cant stand smoke while im trying to eat, now in a bar its different but at a baseball park for example there are designated smoking areas and im ok with that. I dont mind getting up going to an area designated for smoking. I wouldnt want the smoke around my kids. We have never smoke in the house, always outside.

What i have a problem with, is the people who want no smoking at all. I dont think they should tell you what to do, just designate areas.

 

[Winchest55]

I will agree with you there. If someone wants to smoke away from me then I say smoke away. I guess it just really bothers me because smoke really makes me sick. It bugs me most when I am standing somewhere by myself in public and then someone wants to come up and stand right next to me and start smoking and blowing it right in my face in which case i am the one who has to leave. If someone else wants to smoke I think they have the right to do that just as long as it does not effect me.

 

[Joe Williams]

What i have a problem with, is the people who want no smoking at all. I dont think they should tell you what to do, just designate areas.

Even designating smoking areas isn't enough. At my job in PA, I was at our smoking area, which was a covered shelter. A woman comes into it and told me to stop smoking. She didn't want to wait in the building for her ride, and didn't want to stand in the rain, and really though she was in the right to come into the smoking shelter and tell me to out it. I laughed, of course, but mostly because I was seriously surprised she'd be that self-righteous and rude. She was seriously put out that I kept smoking. I've quit smoking, but I really can't imagine having the gall to do that LOL.

 

[MoparMan]

For not putting out your cigarette especially since she demanded. I like how some non smokers think they are on a higher level than the smokers.

 

[haldir]

I don't know. There just seems to be something odd about asking a young fella to go out and protect freedom and liberty while at the same time taking some of those rights away. Another way to look at it, smoking is too dangerous for your health, but we're going to send your ass to Afghanistan... This just seems stupid to me.

 

[TheDude]

Yet another example of the gubmint making decisions for us for our own good. They should get rid of all those guns too. They kill people you know.





It was our government that stood by for decades while there was concrete proof that tobacco use killed people.


Sorry guys, RANT off.

 

[wag1911]

Yes, just another gov't control in my opinion. The gov't can't even balance a budget and about the only thing they run well are their mouths.

When I was in the Army I would say about 35% of all soldiers were smokers (late 80's-mid 90's). I can only imagine how bad retention would be if this were implemented. Of course what they will do is just extend contracts involutarily. Gee, more gov't control - shocking there (dripping with sarcasm).

 

[10ring]

Do as I say, not as I do.

 

[Hammer]

What is the government going to do when they finally do ban smoking, and lose the tax base put on smokes?