รู้หรือไม่ อุตสาหกรรมยาสูบของสหรัฐเคยมุ่งเป้าหมายไปที่ “ทหาร” ของประเทศตน เพราะเล็งว่า ทหาร คือ กลุ่มลูกค้าสำคัญที่จะเริ่มสูบบุหรี่ อันเนื่องมาจากความเครียด และเมื่อปลดประจำการเป็นพลเรือนก็ยังคงสูบบุหรี่ต่อไป กลายเป็นลูกค้าถาวร
The U.S. military has a culture of tobacco use, which decades of tobacco industry targeting has helped create and support. This culture has driven smoking rates to be significantly higher among service members than the rest of the population and impaired military readiness.
Prevalence and Trends
- In 2011, the most recent year data are available, 24 percent of military personnel smoked, compared with 19 percent of the civilian population who smoked at that time.
- Of all branches of the military, members of the Marine Corps reported the highest percentage of smokers (30.8 percent), followed by the Army (26.7 percent), Navy (24.4 percent), Coast Guard (19.9 percent) and the Air Force (16.7 percent), which has the lowest percentage of smokers.
- Twenty-five percent of men and 17.8 percent of women in the military were smokers in 2011.
- There is an inverse relationship between smoking in the military and pay grade; the lowest paid military personnel had a much higher smoking prevalence than the highest paid officers.
- In a survey, 19.5 percent of military personnel reported using smokeless tobacco. The Marine Corps reported the highest rate of smokeless tobacco use (31.9 percent), compared with those in the Army (20.8 percent), Coast Guard (19.6 percent), Navy (16.9 percent) and Air Force (13.3 percent).
- Among military members, males, whites, non-Hispanics and those with a high school education or less had higher percentages of heavy smokers compared with females, other racial/ethnic groups and personnel with some college or more education.
- The risk of starting to smoke for military members is nearly twice as likely among males and those ages 18 to 29, compared with females and adults aged over 45.
อ้างอิง : https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/targeted-communities/tobacco-use-military