DoD mulls banning tobacco sales & use on bases

[WRESTLINGFAN]

With the bloat of so many unnecessary weapons programs, Geniuses like Hagel and some desk generals want to focus on Cigarettes, dip and other products like that.


Great idea. Military members will just get their products off base, thus reducing sales in the PX. Plus it's the quickest way to create a black market.


Alcohol sales aren't in consideration of being banned. Guess they have a bigger lobby.

[realmenhatelife]

With the bloat of so many unnecessary weapons programs, Geniuses like Hagel and some desk generals want to focus on Cigarettes, dip and other products like that.


Great idea. Military members will just get their products off base, thus reducing sales in the PX. Plus it's the quickest way to create a black market.


Alcohol sales aren't in consideration of being banned. Guess they have a bigger lobby.

I'll bet it takes nearly no time, effort or money to enact and has zero impact on anything.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Multiple deployments, participating in a losing occupation in Afghanistan, an embarrassing cluster fuck in Iraq and the pentagon wants to focus on someone who has a smoke or a dip to reduce stress.

[realmenhatelife]

Thats probably exactly how it happens. Obama is in 23 hour meetings with the joint chiefs just talking about it. I hear it's all the next g8 summit will be about. It's literally why they havent gotten Osama Bin Laden yet.

[realmenhatelife]

As a matter of fact Hassan Rouhani requested a meeting on how he could best dismantle Iran's Nuclear Arms Program and also suggested several viable scenerios for detente in Syria AND Crimea and Joe Biden said, I quote very seriously, "You can suck 10 colors of dick until we figure out how to deny sweet relief to our service people, our nations most turgid tax revenue (being PX tobacco sales) and invent a black market which will consume innocent businesses with gnashing, rusty teeth like so many Ayn Randian dragons. Until that day, sir, the nation will have no other priority even if our bridges crumble to dust and the great green sea swallows our screaming elderly ww2 veterans and kindergardeners."

[sailor]

It's literally why they havent gotten Osama Bin Laden yet.

You and your wacky conspiracy theories.

[spoon]

Oh WF is going to lay down and roll around in this like a dog in shit.

[realmenhatelife]

You and your wacky conspiracy theories.

You're not taking this seriously enough.

Oh WF is going to lay down and roll around in this like a dog in shit.

Thats why I dont like dogs.



Just as long as that dog doesn't roll up that shit and smoke it, amirite america?

I mean a serial killing tax cheat can smoke a pound of strawberry hamburgler in the popes face in Coloradbong or wHashington but they will literally build a wooden frigate just to keel haul you for smelling like Joe Camel at Ft Dix. I liked this country better when we smoked joe camels and shot camel jockeys, not the other way around and by smoke in the latter half of that analogy I mean provided a free college education for their anchor babies.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

You're not taking this seriously enough.



Thats why I dont like dogs.



Just as long as that dog doesn't roll up that shit and smoke it, amirite america?

I mean a serial killing tax cheat can smoke a pound of strawberry hamburgler in the popes face in Coloradbong or wHashington but they will literally build a wooden frigate just to keel haul you for smelling like Joe Camel at Ft Dix. I liked this country better when we smoked joe camels and shot camel jockeys, not the other way around and by smoke in the latter half of that analogy I mean provided a free college education for their anchor babies.

Hopefully people won't get the munchies and start eating the dogs

[realmenhatelife]

Hopefully people won't get the munchies and start eating the dogs

Unless it's a good old american hot dog because then they should be forced to.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

What if they smoke too much and put their dog in a crate, strap it to the top of the car and go on a road trip like the Romney's did

[realmenhatelife]

Then they'd be good Americans because they're very rich.

[spoon]

wf, the one trick pony

now eat some in dog food

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Speaking of ponies, how about horse meat

[spoon]

Sigh. It's like calling a fool being just that and all he could be. Far from rocket science, but surely hilarious.

[Jujubees2]

Is it already happening?????

Shooting at Fort Hood (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shooting-fort-hood)

[PapaBear]

Cigs have been banned on ships for years, and they somehow survive. I think having to go off base is a little less inconvenient than leaving a deployed ship.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Must have been enacted after I got out. When I was in the Marines people were able to smoke aboard ship. The announcer on the 1MC would pronounce the smoking lamp being lit always port side on steel beach (the area where the Amphibs would enter/leave). Whenever ammo was being moved there was no smoking

[PapaBear]

We could smoke anywhere on the ship. I once sat on a stack of shells (granted... not charges. But still the same room) and smoked. But that was back in the 80's. Things change.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I'm guessing alcohol use wasn't as restrictive like today. We were allowed 1 can of beer for our shellback ceremony. The hazing was embarrassing but not too bad. I recall hearing stories of wogs from years past going thru a worse hazing process.


For clarification, A shellback is someone who is aboard ship that crosses the equator. Wogs are people who go thru hazing, once done he becomes a shellback.

[realmenhatelife]

DaD Mulls Cider

[PapaBear]

DaD Mulls Cider
DuD mulls milk.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

When's the ban on this?


http://www.amoskeagbeverages.com/HTML_pages/Product_Pages/Flavored_Malt_Beverages/Mike-Hard-Lemonade.jpg

[realmenhatelife]

DuD mulls milk.

GiN hulls Cotton.

[A.J.]

Cigs have been banned on ships for years, and they somehow survive. I think having to go off base is a little less inconvenient than leaving a deployed ship.

I smoked on the fantail of the cruiser I sailed aboard. But I think the ban started first aboard subs for obvious reasons.

[spoon]

Recycled embers?