{"id":41606,"date":"2014-04-01T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41606"},"modified":"2014-03-31T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T23:23:49","slug":"hagel-supports-tobacco-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41606","title":{"rendered":"Hagel supports tobacco ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not my shocked face. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel supports a ban on tobacco products at military bases. Just because. From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s anybody in America who still thinks that tobacco is good for you,\u201d Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon in response to a question about the Navy review. \u201cWe don\u2019t allow smoking in any of our government buildings. Restaurants, states, [and] municipalities have pretty clear regulations on this. I think in reviewing any options that we have as to whether we in the military through commissaries [or] PXs sell or continue to sell tobacco is something we need to look at. And we are looking at it. And I think we owe it to our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagel said that the financial and human costs of tobacco use need to be taken into account. The secretary said that dealing with tobacco-related health issues costs the Defense Department more than a billion dollars a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The healthcare costs of tobacco use isn’t among the active force because it takes years for tobacco use to affect a person. It’s not like a twenty year old who runs five miles every morning is going to develop one of these health problems that everyone is so worried about all of a sudden. It’s like the First Lady pronouncements against mess hall chow. Everybody wants to be seen as doing something to shape the military into a big social experiment.<\/p>\n

I guess they figure that won’t affect retention either – knowing that you can die for your country with a bullet, but you can’t get that last smoke that’s so popular in the movies. So they’re against smoking, tattoos, and winning wars. Looks like they have their priorities straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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