Currently, smoking is allowed in designated spaces that “must be well ventilated and not in the vicinity of stationary watch stations,” according to a 2005 Navy policy.
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As an unintended consequence, the ban also might curtail certain business dealings.
“Smoking leads to some nefarious behavior onboard submarines,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Grady Lott, a former smoker also assigned to Submarine Group 8. “When you can’t get ’em, you’ll do anything. I knew some folks that paid up to $60 for a pack of cigarettes while they were underway.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69193Of course when you're sitting in a sealed tube guess it was hard to scrub the air of the nasty stuff in the smoke.
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