Smoking in Army Uniform

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I have a question to all you mylot users. If the Army is so strict that a soldier cannot smile in his uniform for a picture, why is it that he can smoke a cigarette in his uniform in front of impressionable children?! My nephew, home for a visit from the army, wore his uniform to the fair and lit up a cigarette. I was astounded. I asked him about it and he did not understand what I was asking. When I tried to explain that children "look up to" a person in a uniform like that, and seeing them with a cigarette makes them think it's good to smoke, his friend piped up with, "So, people who smoke should be looked down on?!" That was not what I was trying to say at all. They banned cigarette ads that make smoking look good to kids, like Joe Camel and such, I am just surprised that any armed services would allow their soliders, in the uniforms, to smoke where there are children present. I can understand if it is allowed on base, where there are no children, but a fair? in public? in their uniform? I can even see it at a fair if he was not in his uniform. Am I making myself clearly understood here? I hope so. What do you think?