| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 26 Tobacco and the military |
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| Tobacco and the military: Historical |
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| The superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Commodore Parker, in 1879 lifted a regulation that had barred the use of tobacco by midshipmen. |
| Tobacco Advertising, p. 16 |
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| In 1898, Surgeon General Rixey of the U.S. Navy expressed alarm at the increased cigarette smoking by sailors during the Spanish-American War. He threatened to ban cigarettes aboard ships, but backed down in the face of a possible mutiny. |
| Tobacco Advertising, p. 115 |
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| In 1900, cigarettes were banned in the U.S. Navy at the same time that the cigar was |
| widely accepted. The cigarette was regarded as "a debasement of manhood." |
| Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion, p. 184 |
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| During the first and second World Wars, tobacco companies gave away billions of |
| free cigarettes to the troops. This practice coincided with the most rapid increases in |
| overall smoking prevalence and in cigarette sales at any time in the United States. |
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| General John J. Pershing, Commander of American forces in France in 1918, cabled |
| Washington D.C.: "Tobacco is as indispensable as the daily ration: we must have |
| thousands of tons of it without delay. It is essential for the defense of democracy." On |
| another occasion he was quoted: "You ask me what we need to win this war. I |
| answer tobacco as much as bullets." |
| Cigarettes, p. 40 and Advertising, p 186 |
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