Replying to a message of Ross Sauer to All:

 RS> Oh this is going to go over REAL well. (sarcasm off)

 RS> WASHINGTON -- Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary
 RS> Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on
 RS> military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture
 RS> intertwined with smoking.

It's not as intertwined as some folks think it is.  25 years ago when I was
still on active duty nobody in my office smoked.  At least 15 years ago 
smoking inside SAC headquarters was banned and smokers had to go outside
to get their fix.

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