The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military

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Tobacco and the military: General

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On April 8, 1994 when the Department of Defense banned indoor smoking, the Pentagon's central courtyard became the primary designated smoking area. This area had been nicknamed "Ground Zero" during the cold war.

JAMA, April 6, 1994

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"Achievement of a non-smoking environment is the greatest, single and most immediate health care service we can provide our sailors."

Message from VADM Anthony Less, Commander, Naval Air Force, to

Atlantic-based carriers, February, 1993 (Navy Times, March 8, 1993)

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Since 1989, tobacco use has been prohibited in all Navy and Marine Corps health care facilities.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, US Navy

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In January 1987 the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, California, became the first military hospital to become totally smoke free and to ban all tobacco sales. (The Naval Hospital San Diego followed a year later).

San Diego Union, February 19, 1987, p. B3

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In 1991, the nation's 172 veteran's hospitals banned all tobacco sales and became smoke-free in all indoor areas.

JAMA 267:87, 1992

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