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Smoke 'em if you got 'em : the rise and fall of the military cigarette ration /
"Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em describes the origins of the often comfortable, yet increasingly controversial relationship among the military, the cigarette industry, and tobaccoland politicians during the twentieth century. After fostering the relationship between soldier and cigarette fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Annapolis, Maryland :
Naval Institute Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The rise
- Smoke rising: "I'd give a boy the cigarettes."
- The damn Y Man: "The American Army is thoroughly molly-coddled."
- General March's ration: "Enlist and all will be well."
- The greatest generation of smokers: "Do you just assume that every soldier in the United States Army smokes?"
- Part 2. The fall
- Operation Volar: "The taxpayer was being taken for a ride in two directions at once."
- Soldier-starters: "The renewal of the market stems almost entirely from 18-year-old smokers."
- Health care and the all-voluteer force: "Promises have been broken."
- The Beltway battle: "Our industry is under siege."
- The Reagonomics of smoking: "An economic burden we can no longer bear."
- The downfall: "This provision [does not] deny a benefit to the military community, unless lung cancer and heart disease are benefits."
- Conclusion.