Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Proposed Smoking Ban Angers Some In Military Gates considering report urging total prohibition for ...

Proposed Smoking Ban Angers Some In Military Gates considering report urging total prohibition for ...

Proposed Smoking Ban Angers Some In Military

Gates considering report urging total prohibition for active-duty personnel

By Alex Johnson, Reporter, msnbc.com

A Pentagon-commissioned report urges the Defense Department to ban smoking in the military, even by combat troops in battle zones, a proposal that quickly ignited a controversy among service members.

The study, which was completed late last month by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, recommends closing “the pipeline of new tobacco users entering the military” by prohibiting tobacco use in the service academies and officer-training programs like ROTC and eventually instituting a total ban on all use of tobacco by active-duty personnel.


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