Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military

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Tobacco and the military: General

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The estimated extra annual cost in lost productivity and extra medical costs of one

active duty Army smoker is $3050.

1992 ODCSPER calculations and 1991 Draft AR 600-63

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After 62 hours submerged in a submarine which allowed smoking, the carbon

monoxide levels in the exhaled breath of nonsmokers had increased to a level about

the same as the initial level in crew members who smoked 21 cigarettes a day. There

are now six smokefree US Navy submarines.

Navy Medical Corps Update, Fall 1995 (LCDR Kevin Seufert)

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"Military imagery in smoking is an old story. The famous Marlboro chevron is a

military insignia. Both Marlboro and Pall Mall carry military mottoes of conquering

Roman emperors on every pack."

US News and World Report, June 2, 1997, p. 18 (John Leo)

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The Pentagon has said that it wants $584 million annually under the proposed

settlement between the tobacco industry and state attorneys general.

USA Today, October 15, 1997, p. 10A

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A 1993 general counsel decision, reaffirmed in 1997, states that any veteran with a

smoking-related illness may be entitled to benefits if the veteran first became

addicted to smoking during military service. If all tobacco claims could be processed

immediately, it would cost the government $4.4 billion in fiscal year 1998, and $23.8

billion over the next five years.

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