Let him Smoke!

[blue]

Obama has come under fire because he still has a few cigs a day. He isnt a boozer, a womaniser or a reformed cokehead. He is a smoker, and a minor one at that.

He is about to take one of the most stressfull jobs and arguably the most important office in the world, there is no reason to sweat him if he has a smoke during the day.

As a smoker Ild have a different take if he was choking down a pack or 2 a day, but he isnt. He may be having 4 or 5 cigs a day.

Many famous world leaders, and authors where smokers, do we detract from them for it? I dont, but then again Im a smoker.

I may not agree with Obama's voting record or his political stance and policy, but if he needs a cig after a stressful meeting or before making a major decission, let him!

There are so many other reasons to go after Obama, let him smoke.

[Lady's Human]

But.......It's against Federal Law to smoke inside a federally owned building, unless the area is a private office where no other people are habitually do business......which pretty much rules out smoking in the White House.

[blue]

He can smoke in the Rose garden or any of the balconies on the White House.

If Rush Limpbaugh can smoke in his radio studio, Obama should be able to find away to smoke in the oval office.

[Lady's Human]

Smoking within a certain number of feet of the entrance to a Federal building is also prohibited.

He's part of nanny state politics, let him deal with it.

[Medusa]

If he's smoking so few cigarettes a day, he'll probably give it up anyhow. I knew someone who was down to 1/2 cigarette a day and I said "Hardly seems worth it now" and she said that brief sentence made so much sense to her and that's what pushed her over the edge to quit. This reminds me of the comedy movie "Cold Turkey" where if an entire town gave up smoking, they'd get millions of dollars. One last hold-out was a surgeon who was stressed to the max because he hadn't been smoking and was going through withdrawal; he was ready to operate on someone and the patient yelled "For God's sake, let him smoke!"

[moosmom]

Hey, if Michelle Obama doesn't mind him puffing away, and he's home in her bed every night, I say who cares?

Lady's Human,

He's part of nanny state politics, let him deal with it.

Do I sense a little hostility in your post? Diehard McCain fan are we??

[Twisterdog]

I'm a smoker ... soon to be an ex-smoker, God willing, as I am going to quit on January 1st. Got my Chantix prescription ready and waiting ...

Smoking is an expensive, dirty, harmful, nasty habit ... there is no way to argue with that, smoker or non-smoker. However, if that is all it was, a habit ... then we could all easily quit. It is not just a habit, it is an addiction, and nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, worse the heroin or cocaine.

And, as a smoker, I have never once complained about laws that prohibit smoking in public places. I agree with them ... I should not subject anyone else to my secondhand smoke. It's selfish.

But, whether Obama smokes or not is HIS business and no one else's, if he does it in his own space.