{"id":12794,"date":"2009-07-18T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2009-07-18T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:22:06","slug":"vvs-friedman-on-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12794","title":{"rendered":"VV’s Friedman on smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon “Beaker” Friedman of Vote Vets<\/a> is unhappy that soldiers will retain their choice whether to use tobacco<\/a> or not after the Department of Defense rejected recommendations to curtail tobacco use in the military. Somehow he blames some nebulous “pro-tobacco opposition”;<\/p>\n

Even though no one suggested the government’s Morale Suppression Squad would immediately deploy agents to the front lines to confiscate Joe’s smokes, that’s exactly how the pro-tobacco opposition framed it. And you guys were successful. So well played, my tobacco-loving friends, well played.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t remember anyone except real soldiers who like to dip tobacco to fend off stress and fire up a stogy to celebrate when it’s over expressing their opinions. Somehow we did irreparable damage to future soldiers. But see, that’s not the end. How can anyone write a post at Vote Vets without pulling statistics out of their ass? Well they can’t. In defense of his post, Beaker wrote this;<\/p>\n

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Notice the first line; Military service is not more dangerous than smoking and drinking. I don’t have the data, but I guarantee you more veterans died of smoking- and drinking-related causes last year than died in combat. In fact, that’s a statistic I’d love to get my hands on. <\/em><\/p>\n

He had to say “veterans” because no one on active duty dies of tobacco use – it takes decades of use to die from tobacco usage. No one dies when they’re 19 from a year of a pinch between teeth and gums. But ya know, when you say “veterans” that means people who don’t go to combat – because they’re not in the military. They’re veterans. And they get to choose whether they use tobacco or not – irrespective of military policy.<\/p>\n

So, and I’m just guessin’ here, I think that 100% more veterans die of tobacco use than die in combat. <\/p>\n

Below the jump, Freidman sings “Ode to Joy” to repent for his anally-retrieved statistics;
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