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Gemson
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Posted 11/28/2019 10:32 AM (GMT -6)
I tried to smoke cigarettes when I was in my early teens to look cool and fit in but they tasted nasty and just made me cough and smell bad so that didn't last long. Now in my fifties a smoke a couple of cigars a month. I enjoy the flavor and the smell of a nice cigar and it is usually a good excuse to sit outside and relax and reflect on what's going on in my life. My wife doesn't particularly like it but she knows I enjoy it so she doesn't complain. I don't think an occasional cigar will have much of an impact n my overall health and like I said I enjoy it so I will continue.

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Bohemond
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Posted 11/28/2019 9:32 PM (GMT -6)

clocknut said...
I nursed that pack for about two weeks, lighting up a cigarette, taking a few drags, and carefully extinguishing it to be completed later. But, when that pack was gone, I was through with smoking forever. That was 49 years ago.

That just reminded me. I was going through SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) training in late 1967. For the final week the Navy bussed us of to an Army base so we could starve and freeze together in the woods of Virginia. We were allowed to bring one pack of cigarettes' each. One guy in our 9 man team didn't smoke so he carried a pack we could share when our own ran out. I did the simple math and figured I could smoke 4 cigarettes a day - have a few puffs, snuff it out, and park it on top of my ear and have a few more puffs later on. Around day 3 we were all huddled for the night in a make shift lean-to in the rain. I lit up and realized everyone else was looking at me. They had finished all of their cigarettes plus the spare pack. I still had nearly half a pack left. What could I do -- I passed my remaining cigarettes out and then we all had nicotine withdrawal together for the next few days.
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81GyGuy
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Posted 11/29/2019 10:43 AM (GMT -6)
The Wikipedia article "Smoking in the United States Military" is a very interesting and informative discussion of this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/smoking_in_the_united_states_military

Highlights from it:

"Although the military has attempted to implement tobacco control initiatives, the association between smoking and military personnel has persisted to the present day as smoking rates remain high."

Beginning in World War I, tobacco companies began targeting U.S. military personnel, promoting tobacco use as "... psychologically (an) escape from their current circumstances, boosting overall troop morale," and even as the "... last and only solace of the wounded."

Continuing into modern times "... It was commonplace for a drill sergeant to say "smoke ’em if you got ’em, do pushups if you don’t". Non-smoking soldiers would quickly "bum" a cigarette from a friend and they too would soon be smokers. Despite mounting evidence in the 1950s of the adverse health effects of smoking and tobacco use, the military continued to include cigarettes in rations until 1975."

"In 1975, the United States Department of Defense discontinued the inclusion of cigarettes in K-rations and C-rations."

The article goes on to describe the "war" (appropriate term for it) that resulted after 1975 as the government began efforts to discontinue tobacco use among servicemen, especially as the health dangers of tobacco use began to be publicized, and the corresponding efforts of the tobacco industry to oppose this action. It's interesting reading indeed.

The situation today? The military still tolerates smoking among the troops, but continues to have a policy of active discouragement, and smoking restrictions in the armed services are now paralleling those in civilian life.
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