![Photo: Cigarettes in an ash tray.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/General%20Images/OLW/promotobaccofree_living.ashx)
Tobacco-free living is avoiding use of all types of tobacco products — including cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes and hookahs — and also living free from secondhand smoke exposure. For information on the health risks of tobacco use and resources on how to stop using it or avoid starting, please visit the following sites:
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Video
11/19/2015
![Fight the Enemy Campaign Third Place: Fight the Enemy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://img.youtube.com/vi/t7m0_YZytFw/default.jpg)
Avery Fernandez, Jonah Benavente, and Raven Taitague of Team JAR Squad from Naval Base Guam will receive $250 for their video "Fight the Enemy"
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Article
11/4/2015
![Twenty-five percent of active duty service members smoke cigarettes compared to eighteen percent in the U.S. adult population. That’s not all that’s lagging. Besides serious long-term health effects, smoking cigarettes can slow down a service member by negatively affecting their endurance and how quickly they heal. (U.S. Air Force Photo Illustration by Staff Sgt. John Bainter)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/GASO%20SM%20Skull%20Smoke.ashx?mw=120)
Even with the importance of readiness and physical fitness to service members, the smoking rate is still higher than that of civilians
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Article
10/23/2015
![Women who smoke may have fertility issues, because smoking can affect their ability to conceive. It can also cause premature birth or low birth weights, certain birth defects, such as cleft pallets and complications with the placenta that passes nutrients from mother to child.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Women%20and%20Smoking.ashx?mw=120)
Besides the health risks to the lungs and heart, as well as the cancers it causes throughout the body, smoking poses some significant risks to women’s abilities to have babies.
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Infographic
10/22/2015
![Infographic for the 2015 Great American Smokeout](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Infographics/GASO_2015_Final1.ashx?mw=120)
Almost a quarter of service members smoke cigarettes. Lighten your load by quitting today. Join the Great American Smokeout on November 19, 2015.
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Article
8/14/2015
!["E-cigs," as they are commonly called, as well as personal vaporizers (PVs) are essentially electronic nicotine delivery systems providing battery-powered doses of nicotine and other additives to the user in an aerosol.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161130184154im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Sailors%20Kicking%20Habit%20Navy%20Families%20and%20Youth%20Must%20Face%20Misconceptions.ashx?mw=120)
Electronic cigarettes are having a tremendous, and potentially unsafe, impact on youth as well as current adult smokers hoping to quit, according to health and safety professionals at Naval Submarine Base New London
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Article
7/20/2015
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The Defense Health Agency (DHA), through its Operation Live Well initiative, is teaming with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products to promote “The Real Cost” — a public education campaign highlighting the true cost of tobacco use.
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