Monday, July 13 2009
By Vicki Crawford (
Naplesnews.com)
"Light 'em up if you got 'em"; a phrase that may disappear just as the beard did in the Navy some years ago. The powers that be want the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, to make tobacco use in the military a thing of the past.
Tobacco use -- whether it be pipe, cigar, cigarette, snuff, or chew -- has been a part of the U.S. military from its beginning. There was even a time when cigarettes were included in military rations.
W. Eugene Smith's famous Life photo, "The Face of War", portrays a weary World War II G.I. with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. Such a visage has been repeated in many forms from flyboys to Marines, generations after generations, in many wars, and during times of peace. General MacArthur wouldn't be the same without his corncob pipe.
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