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A loss for the anti-tobacco crowd.<\/p>\n

They had been a proposal to ban tobacco sales<\/a> on military bases (not smoking, but sales), but the House Armed Services Committee (obviously stacked with Republicans) did the opposite, approving a measure to specifically protect tobacco sales <\/a>on military bases. (Had to use a Stripes link, because the only other stories I found were Washington Times and Fox News. I don’t post links to the Moonie Times or Faux News.).<\/p>\n

Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, a former Marine, said:<\/p>\n

young servicemembers should have the right to smoke or chew, and lawmakers who support base tobacco bans should \u201cjust outlaw war\u201d because it also damages servicemember health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, fair enough, I guess, except<\/em> the proposal never said that service people couldn’t smoke or use tobacco products on bases; it just said that these products couldn’t be sold on the bases. So,\u00a0that is a false analogy, I think. By protecting tobacco sales on military bases, you aren’t doing the service people any favours, you’re just making it easier for Big Tobacco.<\/p>\n

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A loss for the anti-tobacco crowd. They had been a proposal to ban tobacco sales on military bases (not smoking, but sales), but the House Armed Services Committee (obviously stacked with Republicans) did the opposite, approving a measure to specifically protect tobacco sales on military bases. 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