Cigarettes and the military

Well it seems to me that if they can risk their lives in Iraq and anywhere else, that it should be a matter of choice whether they smoke or not, it is their lives they are putting on the line. Wonder if that smoking or not would of saved the lives of the ones that has already been killed over there. Seems ot me if that is all they ask for them they should be giving it to them. Let the ones that make all these studies go put their life on the line for our freedom. I am personally sick and tired of hearing about whether I smoke or not, it really isn't any one's business but mine. I don't get in people's faces with it. Why don't they try attacking the ones on the road drunk for a change and leave the smokers and the one's fighting for your freedom alone. government and people that don't smoke got their noses stuck too far up the American people's behind time to pull it out and stay out of others business you want to complain do it against he one that killed the little kid here over the weekend, drunk, no one cares about that.

Look, if you take out life insurance and you ticked the box stating that you're a smoker, your insurance premium will end up around double that of a non-smoker... The reason being that the insurance company sees smokers as a higher liability. Whilst on active duty, the Pentagon pays for your soldiers' healthcare and the VA pays for the healthcare of veterans. The problem is that both the Pentagon and the VA have a limited budget to spend on servicemen healthcare and they see a potential saving by not having smoking related health issues to deal with. Remember though that this is what the Pentagon is suggesting and not something your government has approved. Even if it's approved, they're not going to ban smoking over-night, it's suggested to be phased-in over a 20 years period.