Not even close.Let me guess why you think that. Because you think the government owns you once you join and your body belongs to them. Am I warm?
Besides being unhealthy and diminishing a persons lung capacity.
In a combat zone it poses a danger to all of the other soldiers.
At night the glowing end of a cigarette can be seen for a long, long way.
Thus exposing your position.
Secondly, the smell of cigarettes linger for a long time and carries very far.
Which also can make the enemy aware of your presence and expose your position.
You fuckin' idiot. Do you think the boys smoke when they are on a mission that requires their position not to be known?
Seriously, you can't be that fuckin' stupid, can you?
You think they don't? Who is the bigger idiot? The one that notes a problem or the one that claims addicts can refrain from using their preferred drug because of a mission assignment?
They won't ban smoking, though I would not cry if they did.