Apparently this kid looks up to Barack Obama. Oh Obama, spreading your dirty habit across the globe!
I'm trying to understand why Obama's personal habit is anybody's concern. We're facing a depression, a couple of wars one of which isn't getting any air time (Afghanistan?), global poverty, corporate corruption, and serious health issues like death that are directly related to processed foods (read the labels on your food choices). We all know that Clinton enjoyed a smoke now and then, Monica Lewinsky can attest to that, although he preferred cigars to cigarettes. And we all know that Bush enjoys smokin' although he prefers Iraqis to cigarettes so what's the deal? We're supposed to be worried that Obama is setting a 'bad example'? Seriously? Um, I'm not sure we can get any worse than George W. he's set enough bad examples to fill a hand book on what not to do.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking.
In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC's Barbara Walters.
Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, "Have you stopped smoking?"
"I have," Obama replied, smiling broadly. "What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon."
"Wait a minute," Brokaw interjected, "that means you haven't stopped."
In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC's Barbara Walters.
Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, "Have you stopped smoking?"
"I have," Obama replied, smiling broadly. "What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon."
"Wait a minute," Brokaw interjected, "that means you haven't stopped."
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