Perhaps The New Surgeon General’s First Task Should Be To Ban Smoking In The White House
Our next President Barack Obama is a smoker, so shouldn’t he be forced to quit? After all, Barry is a much bigger celebrity than Joe Camel ever was.
He’s also America’s principal celebrity at this time. Teenagers are going to want to emulate their celebrity hero. I think that there is no doubt whatsoever that many young people will take up smoking because their hero-celebrity president smokes. Sanjay Gupta could make quite a statement if he made Obama’s quitting of the nicotine habit as a condition of his acceptance of the appointment to Surgeon General. That could be an initial victory for the cause of public health.
By the way ... please consider this. I know that ending your addiction to nicotine is a tough job; so is the presidency. If Obama isn’t strong enough to quit smoking, how is he strong enough to be an effective president?
Good question.
Sarcasm aside, I actually don’t have a problem with Barack Obama smoking. He’s a citizen, this is a free country and tobacco is a perfectly legal substance. If he wants to smoke, I say let him.
But it would be just if Obama were forced to quit because of the same sort of big government, nanny state, “we know better than you do” policies the left (and many busy bodies on the right too, unfortunately) shove down our throats all the time.
