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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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| | Tobacco sales in military commissaries, or grocery stores, totaled $529 million in |
| | 1992, or 10% of sales. The average discount was 52% over "outside" prices. In |
| | addition to commissaries, Navy exchanges or stores sold $133 million worth of |
| | tobacco products, and Marine Corps exchanges $37 million in 1992. |
| | Navy Times, July 15, 1993 |
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| | In 1995, tobacco sales accounted for about 11% of total retail sales at military |
| | commissaries that sell tobacco products, ranging up to 49% of retail sales at Fort |
| | McCoy, Wisconsin. In civilian supermarkets and grocery stores, tobacco accounts for |
| | about 3% of sales. |
| | Navy Times, December 2, 1996, p. 8 |
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| | In 1996, the cheapest cigarettes for sale at Travis Air Force Base, California, were |
| | only 57 cents a pack. |
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| | VADM Donald Hagen, Surgeon General of the Navy, in a letter commented on August |
| | 31, 1993 on the controversy about raising prices of tobacco products in military |
| | stores to "civilian levels" and the perceived "erosion of benefits" for service personnel: |
| | "It is an oxymoron to say that reduced tobacco sales (and therefore possibly reduced |
| | smoking) would produce a negative impact on the overall quality of life." |
| | Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, US Navy |
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| | Rep. Norman Sisisky D-VA complained at an April 1995 House National Security |
| | committee meeting that cigarettes in Navy exchanges are priced higher than in Army |
| | and Air Force stores. He also questioned policies that limit where sailors may smoke |
| | aboard ships. |
| | Navy Times, April 24, 1995, p. 14 |
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