Obama is still smoking. Unfreaking believable. The ultimate act of hypocrisy continues. You can't talk about health care while blowing smoke rings. You might as well be blowing smoke out of your ass. You have no credibility as a health care advocate when you mock healthy lifestyles.
Like a tell all my smokers who say they've "cut back". There is no such thing as being kind of pregnant. You are a smoker or you aren't.
Update. Obama may have quit smoking for good. Why did Obama quit smoking?
Update. Obama may have quit smoking for good. Why did Obama quit smoking?
I totally agree with you on this! It sucks that I had to quit smoking (oh not "it sucks that I quit" but that I was required to) to work in the town that I work in. They apparently get a discount on the health premiums if all the town employee's are smoke free. I am so happy that I am celebrating 2 years smoke free, weigh 20 lbs less and can run 4 miles no sweat. I am so totally offended to find the President is a smoker who can't quit. Bullsh&*&^ he cant quit... pop a little Chantix for three months thats all it took for this 2 pack a day 30+ year
ReplyDeletefemale to quit. Come on how can he be responsible for this countries well being if he's busy thinking about sneaking away for a drag on a butt????
sounds likes he's just an ordinary Joe battling nicotine addiction who still falls off the wagon..at least he's honest about his strugggle with it. Scroll down . Somebody decided to chow down at Cheezyland and Taco Bell on vacation. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
ReplyDeleteA meal of two at a fast food restaurant is not the same as smoking. Are you people kidding me?
ReplyDeleteNo it's not except he might slip and have a cigarette every couple of days which then would be the equivalent of Taco Bell. Maybe it's good he's being honest about the difficulty of quitting. Ain't so easy for some. BTW he's my president not my lifestyle guru.
ReplyDeleteperhaps job-related stress has something to do with his inability to quit
ReplyDeleteThey're not equivalent no matter how you spin it. One is the most powerful man in the world who is giving lectures to the American people about how to reduce healthcare costs while participating in the very activity that probably costs us more dollars than most anything else. The other is a medical blogger who seems to live a healthy lifestyle and has eaten at Taco Bell while on vacation.
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is that you probably actually believe they're equivalent.
Let's see...one cigarette every couple of days does not equal the 2 pack a day abuser. Nicotine is one of the most addicitng drugs out there. Let's see, he's making a honest attempt, slips and we slam him. The health care cost of smoking is rapidly being encroached by obesity so yeah I'll say plenty about fast foods.
ReplyDeleteOne cigarette can induce vasoconstriction leading to an MI. One Taco Bell meal doesn't make you obese or have heart disease. Funny that you mention hypocrisy and then "slips and we slam him" in the same breath. You do know what hypocrisy is, right?
ReplyDeleteYes I do anon 7:58. Hypocrisy would have been him not admitting to his struggles. As for the vasoconstriction, stay away from cold meds and don't live in a cold climate.
ReplyDeleteIt's a struggle to quit anything. Great for people who do it successfully but to admit you're struggling is only human.
Obesity has the luxury of "sensitivity training" amd lap-bands and the other supportive crap out there. Smokers are the evil spawn of Satan. Admit you're trying but have slipped and the sanctamonious church ladies all start clucking.
Non-smoker's arrogance or ego at work?
ReplyDeleteif you were a smoker, would you smoke in front of your kids just to declare that you were a puffin?
Who is the armchair commentator? Who is the real hypocrite here? If i exam your life by the microscope, i am VERY SURE i can find twice as many inconsistency. Why? Because we are all human.
Wait, he's human after all?
ReplyDeleteOnly Presidents in the last 70 years that didn't use Tobacco were Jimmy "Cat Killer" Carter... the guy who started the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, and that pioneering Pro Choicer himself Richard Nixon... Roosevelt smoked cigarettes with a holder just like Thurston Howell III, Truman smoked pipes, Eisenhower chain smoked Camels like a chimney, Kennedy enjoyed a fine Cuban Cigar, LBJ was a 3 pack a dayer, Ford puffed a pipe, Reagan shilled for Chesterfield, Bush the Elder smoked stogies, Clinton was a Cee-gar afficianado, as was "W"...
ReplyDeleteSomebodies gotta pay for S-CHIP...
I hate to enter this debate...but nicotine is an addiction not a personal failing. You can make educated rational decisions about public health and still be a smoker. Think about it rationally. Or research it, prove that smoking and rational decision making are mutually exclusive. Run a randomized controlled trial. Don't assume your impassioned opinions are correct.
ReplyDelete(Though I will admit, the "smoke rings" line was pithy)
Leaders need to lead by example.
ReplyDeleteYay, Dr. Frank! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd how "perfect" are the rest of us "non-smokers"?
Until the recently elected Netanyahu administration, the Minister of Health of Israel was a chain smoker who actually tried to block enforcement of and also to change anti-smoking laws -- a little like having an embezzler running a bank....
ReplyDelete1. While Obama is a public servant, he certainly has enough money to pay for the consequences of his health decisions without burdening anyone. He seems to otherwise be in good health at the time so the smoking will catch up to him when he's retired from public office and using his own money to pay for his own care.
ReplyDelete2. Obama is perfectly content to regulate the cigarette industry to improve public health, even going to far as to FINALLY allow the FDA to go against the tobacco companies and regulate cigarettes. Thus, his smoking does not impact his public policy decisions.
3. You have to be an idiot to think that your political leaders should act as moral guides. That's what your pastors are for, and yeah, your pastors shouldn't smoke if they preach against it. He's not actually preaching against smoking, anyway. He's saying we need to improve how we PAY for healthcare, which is NOT the same thing as improving the health of Americans. Instead, Obama is looking to improve the financial straits of those who have no insurance and of doctors (by making sure they don't have uninsured people draining their funds).
4. He has never once claimed anyone should smoke, or that it was something people should look up to.
5. Seriously, if he were looking to go through the withdrawal process from nicotine, complete with irritability and moodiness... Do you really want the leader of this country going through nicotine withdrawal while he's supposed to be supervising the country? Seriously, that seems like a GOOD IDEA to you? Nicotine patches don't do enough, he's under a lot of stress anyway, and the last thing we want right now is biochemical withdrawal. Let him quit when he is done with public office and we don't have to worry about him snapping at a Prime Minister and causing an incident.