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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military |
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| | Tobacco and the military: General |
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| | On April 8, 1994 when the Department of Defense banned indoor smoking, the |
| | Pentagon's central courtyard became the primary designated smoking area. This |
| | area had been nicknamed "Ground Zero" during the cold war. |
| | JAMA, April 6, 1994 |
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| | "Achievement of a non-smoking environment is the greatest, single and most |
| | immediate health care service we can provide our sailors." |
| | Message from VADM Anthony Less, Commander, Naval Air Force, to |
| | Atlantic-based carriers, February, 1993 (Navy Times, March 8, 1993) |
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| | Since 1989, tobacco use has been prohibited in all Navy and Marine Corps health |
| | care facilities. |
| | Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, US Navy |
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| | In January 1987 the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, California, became the first |
| | military hospital to become totally smoke free and to ban all tobacco sales. (The |
| | Naval Hospital San Diego followed a year later). |
| | San Diego Union, February 19, 1987, p. B3 |
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| | In 1991, the nation's 172 veteran's hospitals banned all tobacco sales and became |
| | smoke-free in all indoor areas. |
| | JAMA 267:87, 1992 |
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