I'm with you on this one too. I smoked when I was in the military. One of the things the writer misses, is that people in combat situations just need a smoke to relax and release the stress without a buzz. Combat, special forces training etc... are where people are most likely to own a pack of cigarettes and also where they have the fewest opportunities in a given day, to actually smoke. I think I probably had 3 - 5 cigarettes on a "heavy smoking" day. And then, I rarely got to finish the whole thing! And that was when I was hangin out with guys whose training was unusual. Like instead of doing five miles, we would do one mile - at absolute full-on evasion speed. Try it sometime. Get done with that, and you're not going to want a smoke for a few hours. So this stinks of absolute political BS to me.
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