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[Asia, Korea - South] Smokers to be ineligible for Air Force pilots

Air Force said Wednesday it has decided to disqualify smokers from applying for its pilot selection test, drawing controversy over its legality and fairness. Starting next month, applicants who test positive for nicotine will not be eligible for fligh
Yonhap News Agency (kr)
added Jun 5, 2013 17:25
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[Virginia] Rader is a tobacco-free campus

Patients, staff members and visitors to Andrew Rader U.S. Army Health Clinic on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall can no longer light up, chew or use any other tobacco product on the facility’s campus
Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS)
added May 24, 2013 16:39
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[New Jersey, New York] EDITORIAL: Raise NJ's smoking age to 21: Editorial

The “18-to-die-for-your-country” argument is a classic canard. Nearly 90 percent of adult smokers say they started younger than 18. Die-hard smokers cry “freedom” when new restrictions are proposed. But ask the middle-aged smoker who just paid $9 to feed
Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger
added May 18, 2013 11:38
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[Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine] Businessman worth $581M, Nahshon Nahshonov, Makes Donation to WWII Veterans

Nahshonov is a leader in the diamond industry and a key individual in the tobacco industry with his tobacco company "Marpela". These are only 2 examples of his accomplishments out of his impressive track record. Nahshonov is also the proud owner of a hote
PR Newswire
added May 13, 2013 14:52
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[Asia, China] BLOG / ERNEST KAO: Plane will not wait for you to buy cigarettes, says flight attendant to policewoman

So sensitive is the issue of power abuse these days that rumours of a Hong Kong flight attendant rejecting demands from a uniformed military police officer became an instant hit on weibo. The officer wanted to delay take-off so she could go out and buy ci
South China Morning Post
added May 8, 2013 07:09
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2011 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey of Active Duty Military Personnel (PDF)

Cigarette Use: About one-quarter (24.5%) of service members reported cigarette use in the past 30 days, which did not meet the Healthy People objective of ≤12.0% and was higher than the civilian estimate of 20.6%. The Marine Corps reported the highest rat
United States Coast Guard
added Apr 29, 2013 12:56
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Smoking-cessation drug linked to violence

Q: My husband's best friend, another soldier, started taking Chantix on Wednesday to quit smoking. Sometime Sunday evening or early Monday morning, he murdered a 17-year-old recruit and shot himself in the head afterward.
Seattle (WA) Times
added Apr 28, 2013 19:06
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[Texas] Houston VA targets the nation's leading killer by limiting smoking

In an effort to improve the health of Veterans, volunteers, visitors, and staff, the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) will severely limit smoking on its campus this year. Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disabili
Your Houston News (Houston Community Newspapers)
added Apr 26, 2013 23:17
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[India] Army officer fined for smoking in Assam

Colonel Parveen Heech was first spotted smoking by Jorhat Deputy Commissioner Ramesh Chand Jain and then again in the office yesterday where 'no smoking' was written in bold red letters, they said. The Jorhat district Tobacco Control Cell (TCC) then fi
Zee News (in)
added Apr 26, 2013 23:02
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[New York] Smoking? Combat? Wait Until 21 to Decide, Young Recruits Say

As it turned out, many of the young people walking into the military recruitment center on 125th Street the next day also saw the inconsistency. In general, they thought that it was true that they were not mature enough to make life-or-death decisions on
New York Times
added Apr 24, 2013 09:11
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