You can't handle the truth.
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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Why is it ok for him? I’m a smoker and I put up with so much crap when I want to light one up. Again, why is it ok for him?
What a wuss...real men smoke cigars.....
But God forbid we let the American underlings decide if they can smoke. In a bar. On the sidewalk. In the car.
Word up
Bears repeating.... Smoking is a disgusting habit that can kill you and those around you.
It is going to be tough for him to smoke since he will be spending most of the next four years in a federal government building.
I’m sure after that security briefing he ripped that nicotine patch right off and revealed a blonde patch.
A dangerous shame.
so... how is Biden doing these days?
Well, lung cancer and its metastatic forms are not pretty.
If you work indoors around smokers who smoke indoors or outdoors, but especially indoors, it’s hazy all the time.
RJR and the others are no doubt pleased as punch.
It can kill you. The second hand smoke danger argument is tenuous at best.
I wouldn’t care enough to infringe on someone’s right to kill themselves and their loved ones slowly...except for the fact that I have to smell it. I HATE the smell - it’s toxic. It doesn’t just affect the smoker - it seeps into cars and buildings and hangs on hair and clothes and permeates the area that non-smokers have to breathe - HAVE TO BREATHE. I HATE IT. I hope I haven’t been unclear.
To each their own, I enjoy smoking a Pall Mall or Chesterfield although fortunately not obsessively.
Who am I to deny Obama the same right?
We don't have Royalty in this country (theoretically)
I should be able to smoke anywhere he is able to smoke.
BO is a weak kneed piss ant. So sad that the new “leader” of the “free” world doesn’t have the character or intestinal fortitude to quit. God forbid this idiot has to make any major decisions that involve resolve. ~sarc.
There is no proof that smoking causes lung cancer.
People who never smoked and who never hung around people who smoked get lung cancer.
Some guys at my club say that BHO does too.
ML/NJ
I suggest that you eat beans regularly in order to generate your own personal atmosphere, where you’ll feel more at home.
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