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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: Military store pricing issues |
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| | Cigarette sales at military stores totaled more than $700,000,000 in 1990. |
| | Navy Times, 1991 |
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| | In 1986, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger overruled a decision by his assistant |
| | secretary for health affairs to eliminate discounts on cigarette purchase in military |
| | stores. Military groups had protested that this would have provided a "dangerous |
| | precedent" for cuts in other benefits. Then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop |
| | commented: "How could this be viewed as a reduction in benefits, when the only |
| | benefits would be a lifetime of illness and early death?" |
| | Associated Press, February 27, 1986 and Koop, p. 178 |
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| | "It's time for the Pentagon to ...raise the price of tobacco products in military stores to |
| | match those of civilian retailers, and divert the extra income to military-sponsored |
| | fitness programs. The signal sent to military people would be strong and clear." |
| | Navy Times editorial, June 17, 1991 |
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| | Selling discount cigarettes to members of the armed services encourages smoking |
| | and costs the Pentagon nearly a billion dollars a year in tobacco-related health and |
| | work expenses. |
| | Associated Press, November 12, 1996 |
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| | The military "commissary benefit" provides savings averaging 23% over outside retail |
| | stores on hundreds of items. However, the discount approaches 60 percent on |
| | tobacco products. The Pentagon says that is up to Congress to raise military tobacco |
| | prices, but Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) says that the Defense |
| | Department "has the authority to change this tomorrow morning." |
| | Common Cause magazine, Fall 1995 |
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