Smoking Impairs Military Readiness According to Report


	Smoking Impairs Military Readiness According to Report

lakotahope

7-14-2009 9:32 PM

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lakotahope says:

Every war our nation has ever fought must have been under the effective impairment of our soldier on tobacco. Damn, this is how they get things banned for public consumption too!

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7-14-2009 9:42 PM

katsteevns

Party like it's 1984!!!

7-14-2009 10:10 PM

The Infowarrior

What's next? Prohibtion?

7-15-2009 9:14 AM

lakotahope

...."among them mood disorders, schizophrenia and substance abuse” Christ, if I am in combat and people want to kill me, I am not going to be worry about some army tightass trying to gig me for a smoke. Besides, you gotta be a little bit 'readjusted' to make the transition from War Veteran to Citizen of the Free World successfully.

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