News, Obama Aces Medical Exam, But Is Told to Lay Off Smoking. (smokers, waiting)

[JD59]

President Obama underwent a 90 minute medical check-up and the doctor who conducted the exam pronounced him in "excellent health" but said he needed to continue his efforts to quit smoking, according to a White House statement.

Obama Aces Medical Exam, But Is Told to Lay Off Smoking -- Politics Daily

[stillkit]

Aw, that's what Doctor's always say. It's like, required or something.

I just ignore them.

[gentlearts]

What do you make of this? Obama is the only well educated person I know who is still stupid enough to be smoking. The only other people I see smoking are toothless people in tank tops outside of buildings when it's 20 degrees outside.
I'm less than confident in Obama's judgement on other issues.

[tijlover]

The pendulum swings, back and forth, back and forth, all throughout history.

You know it was trendy, monkey-see-monkey-do Californians who started all this madness. And it will be trendy, monkey-see-monkey-do Californians who will reverse this trend some day. They're just waiting for one of their idolized screen stars to sport a cigarette dangling from their lips. And then? All that smoke you see in the L.A. basin ain't goin' to be comin' from brush fires!

Cutting down on the number of smokers will only compound the Medicare/Social Security problems in the future. To help save these treasured programs, I'm doing my own patriotic part: conducting Start Smoking classes here, never an empty seat in my classroom!

When you research which President's smoked and which didn't, the non-smoking Presidents would be miniscule. And First Ladies? Jackie O smoked right up until 3 months before she died!