Can sailors smoke cigarettes when their submarines are submerged?

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Academy Report Recommends Ban On Submarine Smoking (American) 07/28/09 -- It appears to be a recommendation that there be no smoking -- Not a rule: "Recommendation: Tobacco use should be banned on military installations, and in all military aircraft, all surface vehicles, and all ships and submarines." Cigarette smoking on a submarine is no trivial matter due to a submarine’s closed environment; recirculation of “scrubbed atmosphere”; smoke aerosol; 3,800 chemicals found in cigarettes; and harm to our submariners’ health. A submarine’s central atmosphere monitoring system (CAMS) continuously samples the submarine’s atmosphere using infrared spectrometer to measure carbon monoxide and a mass spectrometer to measure oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water vapor, and freon. This is not the first time an Academy committee has recommended a ban on submarine smoking—clearly the trend is toward encouraging cessation and an eventual ban. http://toocan.com/lunog/index.php/halibut/2009/07/28/academy-report-recommends-ban-on-submari Oct 23 09, 10:17 PM