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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military |
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| | Tobacco and the military: Prevalence Data |
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| | The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt became the Navy's first smoke-free carrier in |
| | July 1993 after a series of incremental steps. Tobacco products were not sold |
| | aboard, and the crew of 5482 was prohibited from any tobacco use. The Roosevelt |
| | was on deployment in the Adriatic Sea off Yugoslavia at the time of the ban, and |
| | returned to home port in Norfolk in September 1993. In late 1993, Congressional |
| | pressure lead to reversal of the ban. |
| | JAMA, June 16, 1993, p. 2960 and Navy Times, March 8, 1993 |
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| | 56% of Vietnam veterans with high combat experience are smokers. |
| | Smoking-related diseases were present in 42% of veterans in a study from Denver, |
| | and another study documented smoking-related diseases in 35% of outpatients in |
| | veteran's hospitals. |
| | Federal Practitioner, February 1995, p. 11 |
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| | The 1996 Air Force smoking rate was 23%, down from 43% in 1985. The 1996 Navy |
| | smoking rate was 35%, and 35% for males and 27% for females in the Army. |
| | US Medicine, February 1997 |
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| | 36% of female Navy recruits ages 17-18 are current smokers, compared to only |
| | 13.8% of their non-military age group peers. Among entering female recruits age |
| | 19-23, 41% are smokers, compared to 24.8% of their civilian counterparts. The |
| | reason why the U.S. Navy attracts young women who smoke is not known. |
| | Tobacco Control, Summer 1999, pp. 222-223 |
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| | Smoking in the military dropped to 30% overall in 1998. |
| | US Medicine, June 1999, p. 21 |
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