Military Considers Smoking ban
The recommendation suggests that smoking first be banned at all service academies, that sales of tobacco products be banned at military installations, and that a Pentagon “tobacco czar” be created to begin the process of purification.
Several things spring to mind. First, to read the report itself is to realize what a silly, liberal, do-gooder group formulated the document, and to then ask: “How on Earth have these people been given such a prominent role in defense policy?” Second, it shows just how deluded and detatched modern Western society has become that they see a soldier in a combat zone and immediately worry whether he’s hiding a pack of Marlboro’s under his body armor.