Let The Man Smoke In Peace

Much fuss has been made about President Barack Obama signing anti-smoking legislation while he is still struggling with the habit himself. Does this make him weak? A hypocrite? A bad role model for our children? Faye Fiore of the LA Times asks a more reasonable question:

[W]hat were the odds that Obama could give up a 30-year habit — even if it was only about five a day — right before assuming the hardest job in the world?

“Highly improbable,” said Ovide Pomerleau, a professor of psychiatry and a nicotine addiction expert at the University of Michigan.

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