Smoking makes a comeback

[unhappycamper]

According to a recent study, nearly 32 percent of leathernecks smoke.


Smoking makes a comeback
By Bryan Mitchell - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 15, 2008 7:26:33 EST

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Smoking kills. When necessary, so do Marines.

Ideally, the two shouldn’t mix. Marines must maintain peak physical fitness for the rigors of combat — not to mention the Corps’ new Combat Fitness Test. Yet the most recent Marine Corps Quality of Life survey, conducted in 2007 and released this past summer, found that nearly 32 percent of leathernecks smoke.

That’s down slightly from the 2002 survey, but the figure is noticeably higher than the national average, estimated by the American Cancer Society to be about 21 percent, and a bit higher than the percentage of 18- to 24-year-old civilians who ignore the surgeon general’s ubiquitous warnings.

Another 21 percent of Marines — the highest number in the military, according to 2005 Defense Department statistics — use smokeless tobacco.

And while cigarette sales at base exchanges are down this year, smokeless tobacco tins are flying off the shelves with double-digit increases over a year ago, according to Marine Corps Community Services.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/12/marine_smoking_121308/%2e

[jaxx]

1. Look at his fingernails, chewed down.

I'd call that stress, and the smoking goes right along with it.

[DustyJoe]

2. I do miss

the green lucky strikes from the c-rats in 68. They were free.