Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military

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Tobacco and the military: Prevalence Data

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In the 1995 DOD survey of the US military, overall prevalence of smokeless tobacco

use was 13.2%, ranging from 7.9% in the Air Force to 24.0% in the Marine Corps.

30.6% of Marine Corps males under age 25 were regular smokeless tobacco users,

down from 47% in this group in the 1992 survey.

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Smoking is banned in all buildings, ships, aircraft, and vehicles under Coast Guard

control. Only 18% of Coast Guard personnel are smokers, less than half the rate of

the other military branches.

Navy Times, April 13, 1992

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The Coast Guard Academy had only three smokers out of their 206 graduates of the

Class of 1991. The Class of 1994 did not have a single smoker.

Navy Times, April 13, 1992

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In a 1990 survey by David Moyer, M.D., of 800 students at the Naval School of Health

Sciences in San Diego, 41% were

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current tobacco users. Despite their work as navy hospital corpsmen, only 10% who

used tobacco before service entry elected not to resume the habit after their two

months of forced abstinence during recruit training.

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In a survey by John Kelso, M.D. of a Marine battalion in Saudi Arabia in 1991 during

Operation Desert Shield, 60% of enlisted personnel and 34% of officers were

tobacco users.

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