Should there be a Smoking/Tobacco policy for and PT failures?

Excuse my rant, but this is BS! I smoked pack n half since a teenager and 23 years in the military.  Smoking does not make you fail APFT! Never failed one in my career and i know so many other smokers that never failed.  But Non-smokers are narrow minded where it has to be because they smoke! One of my 1SG would smoke prior to taking off on the run. everyone would take off, he would wait and finish his cigerette then go, and still come back in low 13s. Ive had different periods where i would run low 12s and times i would run high 15s.  and it had nothing to do with smoking. there is only one thing smoking does, it takes longer to get in shape (if your out of shape) and it probrably gets you out of shape a little faster if you dont do any PT. which means they may have to work alittle harder to get in shape and cannot take long breaks from maintaining it. people that dont smoke will stay in shape a little longer before dropping down......before you just blame it on smoking, let me tell you things that factor in more then smoking!........First and foremost is being overweight (what, overweight is because of smoking too/), almost every over weight person i see also fail their APFT or at best borderline. next, take a look at the unit PT program. If your program consist of warmup, a few exercises and then run a few miles at a 8-9 min pace (which is failing). then you program is dragging people down to bordline failures. True unit PT is to maintain your fitness, but if your a high scorer, you didnt get that way through unit bad unit programs. I took over a unit that had double digit over weight and APFT failures. changed the program to challenge and incentive based and 6 months later had 100% APFT passing, Zero overweight and the unit APFT AVERAGE went from 220 to 262. All it took was enforcing a good program. not making everyone quit smoking. My only problems where i dropped in time was i got out of shape because of my job didnt allow time for daily PT or when was in units with bad programs. So before all you non-smokers look down your nose at smokers, see if there could be other factors involved. and as for as making rules for smokers or putting them out etc, the military has smoking classes and meds. but you cant make someone do something they dont want to give up that is legal. if they fail APFTs, the system will take care of them. Another point, why does the military look down on run failures, but pushup-pullup-situp failures is not big deal? Why do soldiers have to go out in the rain/snow to smoke because the unit wont make a inside smoking area? but if there is civilians working in the building, then they will make a smoking room? its supposed to be banned in all government buildings, which i disagree with. but it takes a civilian for the military to treat our soldiers right.

As many of my counterparts here have already stated, this is a matter of personal discipline and choices.  If a Soldier smokes then he or she has made a personal life choice and must accept the physical consequences.  I personally do not smoke, but still have no sympathy for a heavy smoker who fails an APFT run due to limited breathing capacity.  No one forces a Soldier to smoke, so the choice was always their's.  Cut down on the cigarettes and train for PT.