Obama Smokes?

As of today, President Obama seems to be in perfect health, according to his physician. But his nasty smoking habit will cause him to live a shorter life. "What we don't know is how much he smokes," said Len Horovitz, M.D., a pulmonologist at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital. "But we do know that smoking just a few cigarettes a day can double or even triple your risk of coronary artery disease. That's from a study published in (medical journal) The Lancet and it's astounding. Smoking is the riskiest thing that you can do to damage your health." Obama signed an Anti-smoking Law last June to prevent the rest of the nation from smoking. His main purpose was to keep thousands of teens out there from getting hooked on to this bad habit. However, when asked if he was still smoking, Obama angrily responds that this was about others, not him.

I am somewhat glad that Obama is making an effort to help out our nation in preventing smoking from occuring at an earlier age. However, I am disappointed in the fact that he is not making an effort to quit smoking himself. He is forming an bad image of himself for the country. Presidents are supposed to be setting examples for the nation and this shouldn't be the type of example he is setting. Will this law be all that successful? What are you guys' thoughts on this?