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Smoking blamed for billions in Pentagon, VA costsThe study, led by Stuart Bondurant, a professor of medicine and emeritus dean at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said smoking and tobacco-related illnesses cost the Pentagon more than $800 million a year in lost productivity and health care expenses.
What's a billion here and a billion there to that chump in the White House? Small potatoes.I guess since Uncle Sam will be running all of our health care soon, smoking will be made illegal across the country now.
Does anyone know what the current tobacco restrictions are on military bases? I don't think there were any at all in the early 80's.
The height of hypocrisy, as the Obamessiah smokes cigarettes himself.
He allegedly has quit - sort of a precursor to ascending to teh Throne.
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site
And WHERE will he get replacement TAX REVENUE when revenue from tobacco products drys up?
No he hasn't -- the entire Palin-can-outrun-him controversy surrounded his smoking habits. I think his quote was he has made a mess of his pledge to quit smoking. That pretty much defines his entire administration.
I'm not a smoker, but that's as ****ed up as a soup sandwich.
No smoking in buildings, within 50 feet of doorways, some places have no smoking while walking (local unit policy). My last base, some of the barracks allowed smoking in the building if both roomies were smokers.
When I stayed at the lodging in San Angelo, it wasn't any more restrictive than when I was on active duty, 15 years ago. No smoking in the buildings, period. Not a major deal. As far as while walking, that was an unwritten reg since the time I first joined the military, (1975), at least while one was in uniform. I don't think this will go over very well. As far as smoking related illnesses, I never once had a Sailor under me go to sick bay because of their smoking.
That's easy. They'll keep raising the taxes on a dminishing tax base to keep the tax income the same.It's the same underlying approach to "taxing the rich". They really want fewer eeeeevil "rich people", so they keep taxing them at higher and higher rates so we're all "equal" at the end of the fiscal year.
The fundamental flaw in that logic is that "the evil rich" can afford the legal and accounting talent to simply take their wealth elsewhere to a more tax friendly environment. Jobs will be lost, and the economy in general will suffer. A single truism applies.......when was the last time that a poor person created a job for someone? Oh, I agree, it's not logical. It's liberal, so the two are mutually exclusive. Back when the top income bracket was in the 70% range, pre Reagan, the only folks stupid enough to leave their primary income sources in the US were the fools in Hollywood.....nobody cares about them anyway........doc
Kinda wonderin' where he grabs his smoke break. I can well imagine there's a SSOTUS (Smoke Screen of the United States) that Lord Zero has his minions cart around so that he can, like the Mafia boss he thinks he is, smoke behind closed "doors" so he can't be photographed.
What?? You can make a sammich outta soup? NO WAY!!!111(Now where did I hide that can opener?)
