Barack Obama admits to being a nicotine addict. Which modern Presidents have been nicotine addicts?

Answer 1

In modern times, more Democrat presidents have been nicotine addicts. That's funny, cuz it's Democrats that most criticize companies that sell nicotine products.

Answer 2

George Washington1789-1797unknown

John Adams1797-1801cigar

Thomas Jefferson1801-1809unknown

James Madison1809-1817cigar

James Monroe1817-1825unknown

John Quincy Adams1825-1829cigar

Andrew Jackson1829-1837cigar

Martin Van Buren1837-1841pipe

William Henry Harrison1841pipe

John Tyler1841-1845cigar

James Polk1845-1849none

Zachary Taylor1849-1850cigar

Millard Fillmore1850-1853none

Franklin Pierce1853-1857unknown

James Buchanan1857-1861unknown

Abraham Lincoln1861-1865unknown

Andrew Johnson1865-1869cigar

Ulysses S. Grant1869-1877cigar

Rutherford B. Hayes1877-1881unknown

Chester A. Arthur1881-1885cigar

Grover Cleveland1885-1889chewing tobacco

Benjamin Harrison1889-1893cigar

Grover Cleveland1893-1897chewing tobacco

William McKinley1897-1901cigar

Theodore Roosevelt1901-1909none

Woodrow Wilson1913-1921none

Warren G. Harding1921-1923cigar

Calvin Coolidge1923-1929cigar

Herbert Hoover1929-1933cigar

Franklin D. Roosevelt1933-1945cigarette

Harry S. Truman1945-1953none

Dwight Eisenhower1953-1961cigarette

John F. Kennedy1961-1963cigar

Lyndon Johnson1963-1969cigar

Richard Nixon1969-1974cigar

Gerald Ford1974-1977pipe

Jimmy Carter1977-1981none

Ronald Reagan1981-1989none

George Bush1989-1993none

Bill Clinton1993-cigar

Answer 3

Not only is America addicted to the nicotine tax, the nicotine tax is a punitive tax aimed only at people that that smoke. The taxes intent is to punish smokers by increasing the taxes on cigarettes . Where I live (California) we have had two separate taxes added to a pack of cigarettes, the first tax was $0.25 per pack, this money was given to doctors and for educational purposes to oppose smoking. A couple of year later they added another tax of $0.50 per pack, that tax would be split up between the counties and required additional staff to determine how to spend the money. When the original $0.25 tax was on the election ballot there was also a proposition to increase the taxes on alcohol, wine taxes were to go up by $0.03 per barrel and other forms of alcohol was to increase $0.02 to $0.05 per barrel. The tobacco tax passed, barely, the alcohol tax was defeated 5 to 1. I am addicted to nicotine, I started smoking when I was 12 years old and have been smoking for 48 years. When smoking in public places was legal, I never smoked while sitting in a restaurant unless the person next to me lit up first and I always held my cigarette down to my side away from people that were approaching me so as to not disturb them. I would love to see what would happen if everyone quit smoking and these tax dollars just suddenly disappeared.

Answer 4

Least Barack is being honest he's only human. As far as nicotine half of America is addicted to it, sad but true

Answer 5

Well, I can't dislike a person for that. I'm not certain which Past Presidents smoked because it was never done in view of the public. I think the last one I saw smoking was Eishenhour (I may have misspelled his name). Then, it was before he became President...and when he was still a general in the military. Now THERE was a good President. You had to have lived then to know how very respectable and honorable a man he was.

Answer 6

I don't know, but Bush is alcohol addicted and currently using! And has done things like cocaine, actually got busted for possession in Texas and had to serve "community service" that his father arranged. Ironically, those public records are now sealed. Our 1st president who was a criminal before he took office!

Answer 7

Its completely irrelevant and honestly not our business. Aren't there more important things to worry about than whether or not he chooses to smoke?

It is hilarious that so many posters here use it as a superficial excuse to bash others. And guess what, the majority of the bashers are the usual liberal haters. Is that all the liberal party is about, hatred?

Answer 8

There is no proof that Bill Clinton used cocaine, but Clinton did smoke cigars. I don't know if he was addicted.

But more importantly, if Obama does not have enough sense to take care of his own body, how can he be trusted to take care of a nation???

Answer 9

Obama Hussein also admits to having been a cokehead.
(That makes him even more popular with Democrats & the News Media.)

Answer 10

A lot. But, our president is a coke addict.