Pentagon Seriously Considering Banning Cigarette Sales On Ships And Bases

Sep. 26, 2011 U.S. soldier smokes a cigarette while manning his post in a bunker in eastern Afghanistan. REUTERS

Drop That Butt And Give Me Twenty! Servicemen Face Smoking Ban On All US Military Bases And Ships -- Daily Mail

* Liberal senators want Pentagon 'to stop the sale of tobacco aboard all naval bases and ships'
* Republican congressman fires back that it's a 'political decision' that tramples on active military men and women's 'personal decision-making'
* An acting defense undersecretary says there's a 'need to consider tobacco-free installations'
* Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel calls it serious: 'I don't know if anybody in America still thinks that tobacco is good for you'
* A 2011 University of California San Francisco study found that more than 30 percent of American troops smoke

The Department of Defense is giving serious consideration to a move that would ban smoking on all military bases, and on naval ships around the world.

'I think we owe it to our people to review the military's tobacco sales policy,' Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told surprised reporters during a Monday briefing.

The decision would stand in sharp contrast to iconic images of World War II doughboys and sailors at sea with cigarettes in their mouths, and Marines smoking celebratory cigars after successful missions.

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