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Report: Smoking Ban May Strike Military

July 11, 2009 by usnavyvet2002

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/11/smoking-ban-strike-military/

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on July 13, 2009 at 7:08 am | Reply Michael J. McFadden

A couple of years ago a councilman in Winooski, VT wanted to boot the local veterans out of their posts and into the cold to smoke. He justified it by saying, “This seems like a good way to honor our veterans, to prolong their lives.”

The Councilman probably agreed with the Lung Association’s spokesman, Joel Africk, who urged people not to send smokes to soldiers in Iraq even if those soldiers asked for them, saying “Tobacco use presents an immediate and real danger for our soldiers who are on the lines today… our troops should be sent care packages that don’t kill.”

I suggest that Mssrs. Clark and Africk should spend some time with these fighting men personally, and discuss these issues of honor and danger with them as they stand in the snow outside their veterans’ halls and huddle in trenches in Fallujah. I’m sure they’d find the discussions most enlightening and the end result of the discussions would benefit all of us.

And the same holds true for those who’d try to ban active duty soldiers from smoking. Sad.

Michael J. McFadden
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”
on July 14, 2009 at 5:16 am | Reply usnavyvet2002

Thanks for your comment. you know what’s sad? I grew up in Vermont and New Hampshire. Vermont wasn’t like this 20 years ago. The state has been infiltrated by New York pinkos and they are ruining the state. The place is pretty but has no growth there due to this love affair with nothing but cottage industries. Industries that have moved to Canada, but are stamped with the “Made in Vermont” tag that is.

The smoking thing is ridiculous. If people want to smoke, light ‘em if you got ‘em.
on July 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm | Reply Michael J. McFadden

US Navy Vet wrote, “Vermont wasn’t like this 20 years ago.” Vet, it’ll get worse: Just check out this short video of a UK nurse urging the beginnings of a “Final Solution” to the problem of resistant smokers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71Vv6QAmiw

Watch that video, and then check out this ad saying, “Smokers, like rabid animals, are usually confined to enclosed areas, away from … us normals.”

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/smoking-booth-concept-uses-wall-of-air-to-make-smokers-feel-like-real-people/

People need to read and learn about what’s going on in this fight before their own freedoms are taken away as well.

Michael J. McFadden,
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”