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Let the Guy Smoke: Obama Is Probably Fibbing About Giving Up Cigarettes. That's Okay.
The Washington Post ^ | November 20, 2008 | Michael Kinsley

Posted on 11/26/2008 5:49:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It is still okay to discriminate against one group of Americans. This discrimination is not only legal, it is encouraged. You see members of this oppressed minority huddled outside in rain and snow, forbidden to seek refuge. No one feels sorry for them. And yet we may have just elected one of these pariahs as president.

Smoking is a disgusting habit that can kill you and those around you. Barack Obama claims to have quit, but the evidence is ambiguous. And the media's lack of interest in this question supports the charge that Obama is enjoying a honeymoon with the press. Compare the attention given to John McCain's melanoma -- a health problem more likely than smoking to kill him in the next four years, but also a problem beyond his control. Smoking, by contrast, is behavior. It sets a deplorable example for young people, millions of whom Obama has inspired into active citizenship.

Obama has never denied that he was a smoker for much of his adult life. He said as early as February 2007 that he had promised his wife he would quit in order to run for president. He also admitted as recently as this June -- when his presidential campaign was about three-quarters over -- that he hadn't done so. In May the Obama campaign released a carefully worded letter from his doctor, who wrote that Obama's "own history included intermittent cigarette smoking. He has quit this practice on several occasions and is currently using Nicorette gum with success." Obama has declined to amplify.

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To: elkfersupper

I guess you know better than her doctor. Thanks for your erudite and accurate appraisal of the health of a 97 year old woman you’ve never met. Dang you’re good!


101 posted on 11/28/2008 7:55:23 AM PST by Don W (To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
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To: rod1
Because there are numerous prenatal-perinatal-neonatal environmental factors for childhood asthma with cigarette smoke representing only one of many.

And these factors are new? They weren't there in previous generations?

Again, I'm not saying that ETS is good for preventing anything. I'm just saying that as one thing goes down another goes up.
While correlation isn't causation, it just seems strange.

102 posted on 11/28/2008 8:22:17 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let the Guy Smoke: Obama Is Probably Fibbing About Giving Up Cigarettes. That's Okay.

Yeah, it's OK compared to the other outrageous lies hes sold as a bill of goods to the stupid electorate..

103 posted on 11/28/2008 8:34:49 AM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: Don W
I guess you know better than her doctor. Thanks for your erudite and accurate appraisal of the health of a 97 year old woman you’ve never met. Dang you’re good!

I unfortunately know quite a bit about allergies.

Maybe she died because she was 97 years old.

104 posted on 11/28/2008 6:29:12 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

She’s still kickin’, dude.

Quit while you’re behind just a little.


105 posted on 11/29/2008 9:12:22 AM PST by Don W (To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
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To: Don W
Quit while you’re behind just a little.

You should offer her a fine premium cigar.

Apparently, that will either finish her off or make the rest of her life more enjoyable.

106 posted on 11/30/2008 4:24:01 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
What you are experiencing is hysteria.

What you are suffering besides addiction is justification. I am against no smoking laws, I prefer a polite society. However your reaction is why there are no smoking laws.

Living in the Middle East, I also hate the smell of human urine that permeates the city from Muslims peeing on the streets all summer. They would say it is just natural, I say it is just nasty.

107 posted on 12/03/2008 1:28:25 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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