No butts about it: DOD wants you to quit

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No butts about it: DOD wants you to quit
By Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, November 21, 2009

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — Countless troops quit smoking Thursday. For the day anyway.

Military health workers were full of gimmicks for the 2009 Great American Smokeout, an American Cancer Society campaign supported by bases around the world. It aims to get people to stop using tobacco for at least 24 hours.

Those who went cold turkey at Misawa Air Base, Japan, got a coupon for a free turkey sub, while students at bases in Lakenheath and Mildenhall, England, received flyers on the dangers of smoking in hopes they could convince their parents to kick the habit.

“The military tells us to be healthy, but the only way you can get a break from the workday is if you’re a smoker,” said Lisa Berritella, an Army wife and former soldier who participated in a smokeout walk at Camp Zama.

“You get laughed at if you ask to go take a stretch break.”


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