Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military

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Tobacco and the military: General

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The Coast Guard has banned smoking in all buildings, ships, aircraft, and vehicles

under their control, as well as in housing units occupied by more than one family.

Coast Guardsmen who complained received a letter stating: "Your right to smoke

indoors was weighed against the right of your shipmates to breathe air relatively free

of carbon monoxide, carcinogens and other harmful products of tobacco smoke. The

right to breathe unpolluted air took precedence."

Navy Times, April 13, 1992

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Philip Morris sponsored 15 country music concerts in 1992 under the banner

"Marlboro Music." 10 of these were on military bases.

JAMA, May 27, 1992, p. 2720

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During Operation Desert Storm, Philip Morris made Christmas cards for relatives and

friends to send recorded messages to the troops. It featured a Marlboro man on the

front and a picture of a pack of Marlboros on the back.

Navy Times, 1991

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A shipment of 200,000 donated magazines in late 1990 bound for US military

personnel in the Persian Gulf was held up because the promoter had the magazines

wrapped in special cover advertising Camel Filters.

American Medical News, October 19, 1990

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Before the Pentagon prohibited the practice, Philip Morris donated 2 million free

cigarettes to the Desert Shield armed forces.

American Medical News, October 19, 1990

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