President wants you to kick habit; but stuggles himself as a smoker

Published December 24, 2015

Twice in as many weeks, President Obama has spoken out about the evils of smoking and heralded efforts to prevent kids from picking up the habit, but as far as the American public knows, Mr. Obama has yet to kick his own smoking habit.Mr. Obama didn't use either occasion - last week applauding the Congress for passing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act or today at the Rose Garden bill signing -- to acknowledge and use his own habit as an example to the American public.

"I was one of these teenagers," Mr. Obama mentioned as he alluded to his past in his remarks today, "and so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it's been with you for a long time." But that was the only reference to his own experience.

Inquiring minds want to know - is the President still a smoker?

"I think the president has, on any number of occasions, discussed the struggle that the vice of smoking -- what that's -- what that's done to him and that he struggles with it every day. I don't, honestly, see the need to get a whole lot more specific than the fact that it's a continuing struggle," explained press secretary Robert Gibbs.

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