The Defense Department is considering a smoking ban. It cites the health costs of treating service members and retirees for smoking-related illnesses:
Tobacco use costs the Pentagon $846 million a year in medical care and lost productivity, says the report, which used older data. The Department of Veterans Affairs spends up to $6 billion in treatments for tobacco-related illnesses, says the study, which was released late last month.
Typically, no estimate is provided of the money saved as the smokers perish before they (a) can get sick from something else or (b) receive billions for additional years of retired pay. (Via Hot Air.)
