European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 11 smokers defended three cheers for Kevin Millers stand on our disgusting smoking from the base laundromat to on Board the recreation Center tour to the various base offices or to the there is thicker smoke and More cigarette smoke makes me perhaps next time i wont go outside for a breath of fresh air to help my ill throw up in the Smoky and then leave the puffing smokers to clean up the fruits of their dont say that your cancerous smoke in nearly every military building is and Ive often wondered Why the military runs huge campaigns warning of the Dan Gers of drugs and drunk but virtually turns its Back on the dangers of cigarette after some i figured out that drunk driving kills or maims and each military person who wraps his car around a tree is one less person in the armed forces the military Doest like to lose people while they Are on Active overdoses of drugs also entangle ments in drug dealings mean More military members out of Active duty and useless to the military because they Are sitting in Are More Active duty people take cigarettes have a Tim bomb the military Doest really care that the Dir cheap cigarettes it Sells to Young gis will probably cause cancer in these people some years from so what if the former gis Start dying off of lung cancer at the age of 48 or even the military got four or eight years of serv ice out of these and by the time cancer or heart disease sets in some 20 years its no longer the military re what about the smokers who retire from the and then the military has to pay for those who have cancer its a Small Price for the military to considering the percentage of people who compared with How Many one and two Ermers who smoke and die 25 years later at someone else 40cent cigarettes Are a Good invest ment As the military would see it a cheap with Only Little Cost involved in actual care of cancer i feel no pity for nobody forces them to then theres us nonsmokers who Wade through building after building of dense cigarette smoke in order to conduct our daily studies Are now showing that secondhand smoke is the Best solution would be to ban smok ing in All military and sort put Barracks into smoking and nonsmoking smokers arguments of constitutional rights wont hold one persons right to Pursuit of happiness ends when it infringes on some other persons write to your congressmen and they do nonsmokers Are tired of inhaling your if you Are so intent on filling your lungs with do so or at withheld Pitburg Germany i would like to defend tobacco smokers of this Ever increasing popularity to continually downgrade first of its obvious that this writer despises tobacco he Only suggests raising the prices of cigarettes hardly i suppose pipe or Cigar tobaccos Arent As harmful As he says charge smokers the cigarette prices that prevail on the local the local German Market Price for a Carton of cigarettes is do 30 about is this the attitude of an american officer i could have cigarettes mailed to me from the states cheaper than in sure the lieutenant  want the prices of All goods sold in the commissary and Exchange to parallel those of the local just cigarettes the army it program does strengthen our bodies and helps keep us physically when executed i have seen smokers and non smokers fail the army it can the writer categorically list nearly every major health Hazard in the books1 which is supposed to be linked to smoking i think if i am please let me i will be the first one to admit my it seems to me the lieutenant int try ing to be since Ive been in the army 1975 Radical changes have occurred in the realm of the nonsmokers individual i View these changes As Long and expect when i go to another office or visit someone i am not familiar i always ask if i May european edition  editor chief Mert Proctor editor Elmer manager Henry Epstein circulation manager this 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and rather simple ques Tion if i am expected to be a proper then what about my Host acting in a manner As fit and proper now it is Nice to say to the guest to be but what standards is this Host sup posed to be living1 up to this Host coun try consistently witnesses having their guests being told to go Home that is putting it we Are attacked and have our property damaged while our Host just sits around and lets it what is even worse is that this Host soaks our pants every time we conduct exercises which function for training of their As Well As our our soldiers Are subject to the hosts Laws when it is against them but what happens when it is for the for eign Soldier Little if anything its Nice to place that claim for a dam aged car against the but Why should my rates go up Why should a firm pay for damages inflicted because of poor Host nation supervision no matter what the situation May be the Good Ole Usa always pays the int it about time this stops As history repeats itself and Little if any thing is done to Correct this problem and Gross inconsistency remember when you come to my and i Tell you go throw bottles and paint at your personal property inflicting damage and great personal inconvenience to top it make you pay through the nose for being my that is Normal sop for a Good right chaplain Joseph Batluck Germany company of this i think the writer is i do agree with the writer on one smoking is stupid i May choose one Day to in the i Don t want or need any self righteous criticism from someone who not Only Doest in but Doest want to understand the vices of withheld Germany i wholeheartedly agree with the letter concerning smoking and the and i strongly suspect that it accurately echoes the viewpoint shared by literally millions of i was by the fact that the letter was you usually publish replies or comments from responsible individuals to serious it is Long past time to realize that a great number of concerned people believe that the surgeon generals warning is a and want More efforts undertaken to discourage i realize that statement will raise a tremendous Hue and cry from those who must depend upon cigarettes to get them through the but to them i show me one Good reason to one beneficial result that cannot be realized by safer and ill shut America controls or regulates hundreds of substances from alcohol to the military should take the Vanguard and include tobacco a proven two Mike Broich Germany real heroes so easily forgotten Welcome the hostages in sure they suffered hardships and fear during their and i wish them the Best of Luck with their but dont you think the is going a Little overboard a ticker tape Parade where was the ticker tape Parade when my husband and countless others returned from the Vietnam War my husband could not even get a Job did the vets receive yellow ribbons or new cars to thank them for laying their lives on the line for us they did t get so much As a thank they fought for All of for our some died for us the people working at the embassy in Iran had no idea they were in danger when they went they were merely taken As any one of us might be in any or at any those Guys in Nam knew they were headed for and went some had no but Many because they truly believed it to be their my husband was one of these he and Many other Viet vets Are angered and Hurt that they mean so Little to the the real heroes Are so easily Arent they do you think that so much attention is Given the hostages because the is embarrassed that it took so Long to get them Back some of the soldiers that went to Nam never came Back some left parts think about it and do not forget the real Allen Jennings bad Germany rape and that life sentence i just finished Reading an article Otis Lee being to life for rape be cause rape is considered a serious by whom that judge must be rape is no More serious than a i this is the age of and to give someone life for rape is a although in sure Lee Doest think i cant help but question the motive of the judge for such a stiff sentence other than rape is considered a serious crime and its against the who was the judge trying to impress the victim the Ger Man government his ego a promotion Board to go Down in history As a first to sentence someone to life for rape the article stated that Lee pleaded toilet vandalism i am tired of being forced to use Bath rooms throughout the european area where individuals have drilled holes in the partitions for peepholes or have drilled larger holes in the partitions for other then i am equally embarrassed by the Graf Fitti on the Walls and the Blunt and crude wont people respect Public property More Why cant the facilities be kept in better where Are our Law enforcers do we have to police the areas ourselves whom do we Lodge such a complaint with withheld Germany Well theres not that much to rape that would be harmful enough to net a life sentence and for All of you who might what or what Well i have two one ten and one two and i have a Mother and five and i do not think the victim is suffering from As i this is 1981 and rape is not that i do know that one victim will be suffer ing for the rest of his and i Hope Lee appeals that crap and keeps on appealing every time he gets a no Dice from the one Day somebody will look at it and what is this heres to Otis withheld the writer is a Germany pen pals i collect especially from the air i someone will Send me some Tyhuis Ekterman Strakal 26 7574 is of denial Holland Good Day and a prosperous new year to wih you please publish our names in your newspaper we prom ise to answer any letters we Emma Vanclay and miss Lydia de Claro 8323 Davao City 9501 Philippines Suan 2 Bucana trading Davao City 9501 Philippines