LOL!
Taxpayer money hard at work

Ah. Well spent money once again by the United States federal government.

Current Account Balances: https://www.cia.gov/library/publica [...] 7rank.html

You'll find the US at the very bottom

"I have a much uglier word for it, sir - misappropriation!"

I can't quite see how this would work. If this is free, I wouldn't have to even pay for it since I don't even live in the States lol (unless they restrict it to the US only).

Regardless, no tax dollars from me =D!

I agree with this. The military shouldn't be smoking while fighting our wars, after all, cigarettes can kill you.

If governments want people to quit smoking this is what they do...

1)Increase the cost in USA per pack a couple bucks (Canada we pay $12)

2)Take ALL the tax money gained from the smoking for one year and place into a fund.

3)Make smoking illegal.
4)Take ALL the fund “tax” money and offer FREE patches and medication to those whom require it (everyone) for 3 months.


It’s a drastic plan… and it would work. Those who can’t quit will buy their cigarettes with their pot on the corner and face criminal charges.

ohh BTW... im a smoker.

Would you really trust anything emmanating from the DoD to install on your computer? I'll eat my hat if there's not any "big-brother-ware" included on the "free" installer.

worst game ever

grieve: That's it, make it illegal. We saw how well that worked for alcohol. And thank goodness crack is illegal, which therefore prevents anyone from doing it. I hear that's nasty stuff, although I've never known someone who did it, but hey, the DARE officer said it's bad so it must be.

I don't smoke(anything), for the record.

i can't wait for a smoking mod

Wow, great. Taxpayer money going to propaganda. Fucking pathetic.

grieve:

Yeah, because making marijuana illegal totally stopped people from smoking marijuana. And back in the 30's nobody drank alcohol either, because it was illegal!

I've been in the army for 6 years now, so I feel I should post a little bit on this subject.

1. "Taxpayers dollars at work". Well let me ask you this? Did you know that taxpayer dollars go to current service members and veterans to pay for our health insurance?

Let me ask you another question? If this game can convince a large number of our military members and veterans to quit smoking, don't you think the reduced amount of medical care that we receive from smoking related illnesses (Treatment is ALWAYS VERY EXPENSIVE).

It might be 3.7 million right now, but in the long run I think it will save lots of money in health care costs (Not to mention drastically improve many service member's lives)

Then again, it seems to be a common American trend to not care about us soldiers. Pretty apparent when close friends of mine die in Afghanistan or Iraq and won't even make the news papers, yet you got stupid celebrities making front pages of every news paper in the US.

To quote a stupid civilian - "Pathetic"

The point making it illegal is to make it less readily available.

I agree criminalizing alcohol, pot, and cigarettes would not stop consumption; however it certainly reduces the total user count. Imagine how many crack heads there would be if you could buy it @ the store?

As a smoker, if I could not walk into a store to buy cigarettes I would face the music… time to quit. There is simply no way in hell I’m going to risk my carrier/life to buy cigarettes from some junky and face jail time. I would be willing to bet at least 70% of smokers would see it this way as well. As hard as it is to stop smoking, I feel we just need some real incentive.

grieve your plan is something they should have done here a long time ago

Nah, I'm waiting for the butter-smoking mod.

Ever play Heroin Hero?

I can't believe people still smoke, it's disgusting and harmful. Gosh I love taking a crap on my front porch everyday, makes me feel so good!

That's the problem with you idiots who fight wars so some politicians can make money. Bush is under the thumb because he threw party for his contracting friends in Iraq without any real support.

Defend my homeland, and I'm find with that. Our forefathers only wanted LOCAL MILITIA FOR A REASON. They didn't want to conquest. The original colonies tried to make PEACE with the Natives and wanted to be out from under the tyranny of foriegn rule. They certainly didn't want to terrorize other nations, like we've done to Iraq. Remember the Pilgrims and the war against England?

Insulting CIVILIANS is pretty retarded, since you claim to be defending us. The hell if I have much say where my tax dollar goes. Personally, I think you're probably just another H.S. dropout who wants cash in his pocket and bought into the propaganda of your native country.

You don't want to give up your time and spend part of your life in jail? Isn't that what you're doing anyway by smoking? Giving up time? Smoking = death. It's no secret. You put bad chemicals into your body like POISON and you will certainly die. Nevermind if it takes awhile. Why not just sample some mercury? It makes about as much sense as smoking. You have a billion reasons to quit smoking, and NONE to keep on. It doesn't look cool. So that's out the door. It doesn't relieve stress either. It causes it. If you don't get your nico-fix you're stressed out. Quit smoking, and live a bit more carefree with that $1200K a year in your pocket.

God we need an edit button. $1200 *extra a year. I didn't mean to hit K. K? And in my post above it should say "fine" Nobody wants to spend an extra 5 min proofreading everything. Hell, the authors here don't even proof their work. Why should the posters? GET US AN EDIT BUTTON ALREADY! EVERYONE HAS BEEN CRYING FOR ONE!

Well you can edit your posts sometimes, if you dig around through your post history, it will show this News article, and you can view it as a forum topic and edit it there. I emphasize sometimes, as I think it requires someone to have replied since you posted.

Grieve: If you take Holland(where you can buy recreational drugs at any coffee shop) as an example, you could draw the conclusion that the drug-use rate would be slightly lower than it is in America right now. Portugal is another fine example, they decriminalized EVERYTHING, and every statistic available suggests that not only did social problems not get any worse, they actually got better.

Unfortunately, there are too many people like you that have been taking in the same tired old Reagan era propaganda, without paying any attention to what a failure those policies really are. Go research Holland and Portugal, educate yourself.

SMOKE! are you smoking yet?

someone will make a weed smokin mod

I enlisted to serve my country. I don't make policies, or declare war, or make any calls. So why would you critisize me? I respect your right to disagree with US policies, but what does that have to do with a person who selflessly raised his hand and said "I swear to protect this country from all enemies, foreign or domestic".

You're focusing your hate in the wrong area. Thats ok though, lots of people do that. Kinda like when you call tech support guy and yell at him over the phone for a bad product. He didn't design the thing, he just answers the phones.....

And I graduated highschool (No GED here) and then went on to get a degree in my spare time, while serving my country as a full time soldier getting shipped off to the desert for 15 months at a time. dick.

Oh, and I was offered a free ride through college right after I graduated highschool, an offer which I refused, and enlisted because I wanted to serve my country, and earn my education with my own hard work.

Anyway, back to the subject. This project may cost money now, but in the long run it will probably help decrease the amount of tax money is spent on health care for soldiers and veterans who get illnesses caused by smoking. It's an investment for the future.

And I think many people on this site would agree, this is a tech generation, and what better median is there to send a message then video games?

Hell, America's Army worked great to get tons of people interested in being a soldier. Why wouldn't this work just as well in this day and age?

Am I supposed to be glad that you go out into a foriegn nation and stir up a bees nest? Why do you think Osama Bin Laden and his cronies came to bomb us in the first place? We don't just "have enemeies". We make them through violence and demands that we inject into other nations. Violence begets violence. It's in the Bible man. You kill one person and 5 kids rise to take their place 20 yrs later. So I guess I should thank you for making me enemies and using my cash to do it. Next time you want to defend my country, do it from within it.

The way I see it I'm a true patriot, I believe in FREEDOM. That means freedom from the tyranny of another nation, but it also means my own government. Last I checked, I could be jailed for not paying taxes. My government should FEAR ME. The problem is with kids like you who take up arms. I can't fight you. You're a well trained soldier. I'm just a stupid civilian. But without me, you have no purpose. Without you...well...I could actually try making peace with my neighboring country and I'd have more cash in my pocket. If the neighboring country tries to invade, don't worry...I'll gladly take up arms and fight beside you then. But I guess I don't see the need to not only LIE TO THE PUBLIC, but to TRAVEL HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE AND KILL PEOPLE. I LIVE HERE!

Dude you go educate yourself. It is a different culture over here than it is in Europe it has nothing to do with policy. Portugal has a population of 10 million Holland has 16 million. We here in the US have over 300 million people. That in itself is a big factor. You can't compare apples and oranges. Drug use has dropped in the US in the last 30 years because of education and discussions about drugs. Airborne11b is correct that if people stopped smoking we would save billions in heath care costs and maybe we could afford for everyone to have low cost or even free health care for everyone. But over here we seem to think that it is cool to smoke and take drugs. Those people will never see the damage that it truly does to families and children. If I had a dollar for every drug positive baby born in this country I would be a rich man. But keep on proving that you are a man with big balls and be stupid.

Yeah, I can't applaude Mr. Airborn. I too served in the Army, I joined before 9/11. After 9/11, I bought into the whole Afghanistan war at first, but right when the Iraq war propaganda was firing up, I'd figured out that it was all a crock of shit. So, rather than "follow orders", I went to extraordinary lengths to get a dishonorable discharge, and I couldn't be more proud of it. My last handful of IT jobs certainly didn't care, it hasn't stopped me from doing anything with my life.

Remember, history does not look fondly upon those who were "just following orders", there's a special place in hell for people like those, the Romans, the Nazis, the Soviets, etc...