Jump to full article: Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, 2007-09-24
Author: Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers
Intro: PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD - The encounter this week was opportune.
The man whose warning label graces every cigarette pack in the United States paid a visit to a U.S. Navy hospital with 700 military personnel and civilians on board, among them more than a few addicted smokers.
As Rear Adm. Kenneth Moritsugu, the acting surgeon general, toured the USNS Comfort in this southern Caribbean capitol, he found himself autographing sailors' cigarette packs as keepsakes -- with a hitch.
In exchange, the nation's top doctor made them pledge to kick the habit.
On the spot.
"This may well be the motivation they need," Moritsugu said in a shipboard interview . . .
The impromptu initiative was unwittingly started Thursday by an at-times wisecracking sailor aboard the boat, Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Jones, who works as a Navy journalist and who has smoked since college.
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THE LAST PACK. 07/20/07.
Rear Adm. Kenneth Moritsugu, US acting surgeon general, autographed cigarette packs for sailors on a hospital ship in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, but at a price--a pledge to quit. Cigarettes are still sold on the ship.
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