Um. First, submarines are equipped with equipment that extracts oxygen from water. This is what provides the air onboard a submarine. Do you honestly think that enough air could be carried onboard a submarine to allow it to be submerged for months at a time?
Secondly, if you lived underwater for months at a time, you might decide to start smoking also....
Third, If it were not permitted to smoke on a submarine, I'm sure that you wouldn't have smokers volunteering for sub duty. These guys are top-notch, whether they are smoking or not, over 50% of America's nuke arsenal is sitting on Ohio class submarines as part of the START II treaty, so I want the US Navy to be able to recruit and retain the best, regardless of their smoking preference.
And the ashtray thing was metaphoric....its not like they really pay $400 for ashtrays. If they did, the people running these programs aren't TOTAL idiots. The US Government is notoriously cheap, I've contracted for them, and I know they don't pay a premium unless it's in their best interest.
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Um. First, submarines are equipped with equipment that extracts oxygen from water. This is what provides the air onboard a submarine. Do you honestly think that enough air could be carried onboard a submarine to allow it to be submerged for months at a time?
Secondly, if you lived underwater for months at a time, you might decide to start smoking also....
Third, If it were not permitted to smoke on a submarine, I'm sure that you wouldn't have smokers volunteering for sub duty. These guys are top-notch, whether they are smoking or not, over 50% of America's nuke arsenal is sitting on Ohio class submarines as part of the START II treaty, so I want the US Navy to be able to recruit and retain the best, regardless of their smoking preference.
And the ashtray thing was metaphoric....its not like they really pay $400 for ashtrays. If they did, the people running these programs aren't TOTAL idiots. The US Government is notoriously cheap, I've contracted for them, and I know they don't pay a premium unless it's in their best interest.