Chuck Hagel Signals Support for Tobacco Sales Ban on
Military Bases
by AWR Hawkins 1 Apr 2014
As the Navy considers a ban of
tobacco on all bases and ships, Secretary
of Defense Chuck Hagel is signaling his willingness to accept that ban and
more.
According to Stars and Stripes,
Hagel said, "I don't know if there's anybody in American who still thinks
that tobacco is good for you."
We don't allowing smoking in any
of our government buildings. Restaurants, states, [and] municipalities have
pretty clear regulations on this. I think in reviewing any options that we have
as to whether we in the military through commissaries [or] PXs sell or continue
to sell tobacco is something we need to look at it. And I think we owe it to
our people.
Hagel indicated
"tobacco-related health issues cost the Department of Defense more than a
billion dollars a year." He said, "Now the dollars are one thing. But
the health of your people--I don't know if you put a price tag on that."
Chuck Hagel
Chuck
Hagel is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Defense for the Barack
Obama administration, and was the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Note: U.S. Navy is the U.S. Department of Defense for oversees.
Sean
O'Keefe was the comptroller & CFO for the U.S. Department of Defense, the secretary for the U.S. Navy, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Norman
W. Ray was a vice admiral for the U.S.
Navy, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Herbert M.
Allison Jr. was an officer for the U.S.
Navy, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Edmund P.
Giambastiani Jr. was an admiral for the U.S. Navy, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Charles R. Larson
was an admiral for the U.S. Navy,
and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
R. James Woolsey
was the under secretary for the U.S.
Navy, and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Harold
Brown is an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at the Philip
Morris International Inc., and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) is an American
global cigarette and tobacco company, with products sold in over 200 countries with
15.6% of the international cigarette market outside the United States.
Stephen
M. Wolf is a director at Philip
Morris International Inc., an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a senior adviser at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior managing
director for Lazard Freres & Co. LLC.,
Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Chuck
Hagel is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Defense for the Barack
Obama administration, and was the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Harold
Brown is an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at the Philip
Morris International Inc., and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense.
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