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The pentagon is currently reviewing a study that is recommending banning the use of tobacco by military personnel. My question in what are they thinking? Yes the outward costs of medical care and so on for the soldiers is quite large. However, they already sacrifice enough for our freedoms, why take away one of the few relaxing pleasures that can get while in battle.

According to their study around 32 percent of our armed forces use tobacco, while only 20 percent on the US adult population smokes. I think those numbers are completely understandable and honestly I am surprised that the number of Military smokers is not higher. After all the stress and fatigue that endure so that we may enjoy our lifestyles.

I think the government is wrong by trying to force these ideals on to our soldiers. They already give up so much. There are things that are legal for citizens to do, that are not allowed to do. And we want to enforce more on them?

I am a tobacco user myself, I want to quit, and someday I will however it will be at my decision.  Because I am a U.S. citizen, I have rights. Just because someone higher up thinks that I shouldn’t smoke does not give them the right to tell me I can’t smoke, or at least not yet.  In Oregon, they’re even trying to make the new electronic cigarettes illegal and keep people from using them!

Our men and women in the armed forces see things, do things and endure terrible, horrible things. Things that haunt them for years afterward.

hey see and do these things so that we, us American citizens don’t have to. I know a great many service men and women. I’ve heard the stories of how when the fighting was thick, where there never seemed to be an end, and when there would be no sleep for days. A cigarette would bring them enough of a calm to get through it all and continue on.

Think about your average everyday life, and multiply it by a hundred. We as American citizens have no idea of how easy our lives our. Our soldiers know how hard life can be, when in combat they deal with it on an everyday basis. So why do we want to take away something that brings them some calm?

Think about it this way, sadly some of our soldiers are wound so tightly that the slightest things could sent them off. I can guarantee you that the ones I am referring to smoke cigarettes, do you really, really want to take away something that keeps them from going over the edge.

We are in a state of war people, it’s not pretty, It’s not easy, and I am sadly not someone over there fighting. I may not be able to fight with them over there, but I can certainly fight for them over here. They give up enough, their family, time spent watching their children grow, some even give up their lives. Let’s not take away more from them.

The smokers state side are already feeling the burn, and the isolation of our habit. Lets not hurt those who’s morale and safety depend on it.  Leave us smokers alone.

1. You have to be against capital punishment,

<<Hey Cons, waaaaay too too costly. Thought you Con(men) didn’t believe in government waste.

but support abortion on demand.

<<Hey, Cons, you think the right to choose, the right to PRIVACY, should be infringed? Hey Cons, choose NOT to have one.

2. You have to believe that businesses create depressions

<<Hey Cons, they do. Look around your myopic world. Read a newspaper. Without adequate regulation we get what we have now. How’s that economy working for you Bushie-con?

and governments create prosperity.

<<Hey Cons, didn’t the Pentagon CREATE the Internet?
And NASA create TANG? to name just a few in this wide range.
Isn’t BLACKWATER International and Halliburton doing pretty good last time we checked too.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more
of a threat than Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iranians and North
Korean communists.

<<Hey Cons, name me one American that harmed by a North Korean nuke? No? Didn’t think so.
<<Hey Cons, you want a list of the thousands of people that die every year from gun violence?
<<Hey Cons, how many of those guns STARTED in the hands of “law-abiding Americans.”

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

<<Hey Cons, isn’t ones life is supposed to be a “work of art” why deny Art is important to life?

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth’s climate

<<Hey Cons, yes, climate change does occur, over thousands of years, not over two hundred, SEE answer below.

and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s.

<<Hey Cons, why do you think global warming is a hoax? Answer: Cons don’t believe in science either.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.

<<Hey Cons, why do you think someone would CHOOSE to be part of a reviled, hated minority? People of color have no choice.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

<<Hey Cons, it is because of the cuts to funding prevention, LOL, you could look it up!

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

<<Hey Cons, sex is healthy.
<<Hey Cons, why do you cling to your guns and religion?

9. You have to believe that hunters that pay for wildlife management don’t care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco
or Portland do.

<<Hey Cons, We hope they ALL do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

<<Hey Cons, Huh?

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make “The Passion of the Christ” for financial gain only.

<<Hey Cons, duh, Gibson is a sado-masochist torture freak who DID make MILLIONS on this torture flick.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

<<Hey Cons, read a book, the ACLU supports and defends the ENTIRE Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

<<Hey Cons, do all CONS work for banks? ATM fees ROB people blind, and are WAY too high

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.

<<Hey Cons, Huh? Liberals and Progressives can’t admire these inventors too?

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

<<Hey Cons, a wee bit of compassion here. After 270 years of slavery and 80 years of segregation, a little help isn’t untoward. Is it?

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.

<<Hey Cons, She is a Wellesley College and Yale Law School graduate. No, she’s not normal.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.

<<Hey Cons, Corporate socialism is happening here in the US. Don’t get your Larry Craig panties in a bunch. We’ll get to your fascism one day soon.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

<<Hey Cons, I forgot, everything is Clinton’s fault. Oh man, sex offender? Conservatives can begin a war, kill thousands of people and wreak havoc with the economy but get a blow job? For Conservatives it seems to be the blow jobs are being given mano on mano. That’s OK. But a real man getting a blow job WHILE he’s working? Because he’s TOO BUSY WORKING to stop?I want that MF’n multi-tasker working for me.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying transvestites in drag should be constitutionally protected,

<<Hey Cons, you guys are dodo birds, truly (Cons also soon to be extinct because of the way they think), it is called the first amendment.

and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

<<Hey Cons don’t YOU believe in the Constitution? They should be off … if they’re on government property. Delusions shouldn’t be approved on my tax dollar.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.

<<Hey Cons, what? Prove it

21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.

<<Hey Cons, it is. You don’t see these types of Goebbels like propaganda pieces from free, progressive, forward thinking liberal. Why? Because we have facts, history and truth on our side. We don’t need a Nazi-type propaganda machine to fool simpletons. Too busy for that.

22. You have to believe that it’s OK to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas Day but it’s not OK to say “Merry Christmas.”

<<Hey Cons, this one is new, is it due to that wacko Bill-O?