1. I am disappointed that he is our president and he is a smoker. How is that sexy??? Personally, I feel that it would be like kissing an ash tray. By the way, Barack is only black from the waist up and white from the waist down!

hotmama at 8:32AM on Dec 10th 2008

2. i love mo! funnyyy

luisa =] at 6:17PM on Dec 8th 2008

3. I know that gratuitously modified Laura Bush voice...
Hmm...

Rebecca at 9:27PM on Dec 8th 2008

4. Oh, HELL..... I'm GLAD he already smokes.

After a year or so of running this eff-ed up country, he would be anyway, & then all we'd hear about for the following 3 years is how he took up smoking.

I'd smoke, if I had his job.
JFK did, & he did.

Then again... I'd probably be able to afford heroin.

Hmmmm....

Tough call.
Sherry

S.L. at 11:34PM on Dec 9th 2008

5. i did not know that our prez smokes. i really wish he would quit. i smoked for 43 years. now i have to drag a 35 foot long tube behind me because i now have to wear oxygen in my nose 24/7. i now have copd a terminal illness. caused from smoking. if i had only known about this 43 years ago i could run around playing with my grandkids.

deborah f cipriani at 9:27AM on Feb 1st 2009

6. On 60 minutes, Barak's wife said that she leaked the information that he smoked as a ploy to get the nation to pressure him to stop. It seemeed sweet at the time but with your reporting I see the darker side.

Barak's voice is so smooth and sweet. His wife obviously wants to make him seem less atractive so that she does not have to compete with every woman for the love of her sexy sexy husband. She can turn him into a merely sexy husband and some people might begin to be able to control themselves.

Nick at 8:52PM on Mar 2nd 2007

7. African Americans do not seem aware of any dangers in smoking. I work in a government agency with over 15,000 employees, only 4% are caucasian or latino or other. Of the other 96% African Americans over 80% of them smoke. This is based on a self-reporting survey within the organization. Mind you this is an agency with information about health posted everywhere. I have spoken to some of these smokers and they claim it is their one joy in life. They also do not believe the claims that it is bad for you. Odd!

alex smith at 9:51AM on Mar 3rd 2007

8. The audio tract that you doctored up to make these people sound different was idiotic. To have this posted on a political link is ridiculous and you should be flogged. And by the way ....you sound real manly yourself there Mo.

Bobby at 2:21PM on Mar 3rd 2007

9. WHY ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT LAURA BUSH SMOKES?

ERIC at 5:51PM on Mar 3rd 2007

10. Laura Bush began smoking Winstons as a teen. She quit her regular smoking habit eight years but, according to at least USA Today and The Boston Globe, she continues to sneak cigarettes. Not that I blame her. The pressure of a job she never wanted must be terrible.

Mo at 6:01PM on Mar 3rd 2007

11. I am not voting for Barak, but if he wants to smoke,
light em' up. It ain't nobody's business if you choose to smoke. People needs to worry more about their bad habits instead of everyone elses, and that's stickin your nose where it don't belong.
If you can't help stickin your nose up everybody elses butt, wear a patch.

Robert at 6:34PM on Mar 3rd 2007

12. Quoting Alex Smith: "African Americans do not seem aware of any dangers in smoking".

I live in a small town in Central Louisiana of which it's section being predominantly black known as "Lower Third Street" has something not found through out any of the white nieghborhoods. Many liquer ads and smoking ads on bill boards, all of which I simply had to point out to my wife as it would appear all but minorities of choice are educated as should be concidering such hazards. I had once seen a movie starring Cuba Gooding Jnr (a very fine actor) of which pointed this issue out as well! It's truly sad that such continues to be of concequence in todays world!

Ricky at 12:12AM on Mar 4th 2007

13. Who cares? Let the guy smoke. His life and no one elses.

Jdlamps at 11:27AM on Mar 4th 2007

14. You have to show by example. Now, for his comment about how US made Iran stronger. If he wants my vote, he will have to come out with answers and solutions, not tearing down President Bush's policy. If you have answers that will continue to do what Bush did (protect US), then we can talk. This is not Vietnam like most "peace" marches want you to believe. We have a type of people (gansters) who want to destroy anyone and everyone who don't think like them. See the way they (radical muslins) treat their own (women and children). I know all muslins are not like them. The ones with who are not afraid to speak, one never hears about it. One of the biggest problem in America is the media. They can haandle the truth. Most of the media is owned by people who don;t believe in democracy to it;s fullest extent. So, I encourage you to march to the beat of a differnet drummer (you). I want to believe that you didn't come this far to be status quo.

jewelene Kirkland at 11:26AM on Mar 4th 2007

15. For #2 -- Alex Smith

I don't have statistics, Alex, but I suspect that smoking is more a factor of socio-economic group than racial group. A higher percentage of African Americans and Hispanics in America are poor. Poverty is a predictor of substandard education, inferior health care, unemployment, out-of-wedlock births ... yada,yada. If anyone does have figures or studies about the incidence of smoking among different racial groups or the incidence of smoking across economic groups, please share the information.

Ricky is absolutely right about big tobacco targeting minority populations and poor neighborhoods in their advertising campaigns. Also be aware that they are beginning to target teen-agers, again. Take a look at the new Camel hype. Its for the kids.

I work in a hospital and I notice it breaks down like this among the employees:
Doctors and most RN's don't smoke. Administrators don't smoke. These are the most highly paid, highly educated employees. Professional staff (clinicians, social workers, middle management) also do not smoke. The lower you go on the pay scale, the more smokers you find. Mostly security guards, housekeepers, food service workers and CNA's. Being poorer and less educated, they are in the tobacco's target population. Its disgusting the way Big Tobacco preys on the most vulnerable.

I really like Obama -- But he NEEDS to quit smoking. He has to send that anti-smoking message to our kids. Laura Bush can do whatever she wants. She has to live with Dumb-Shit Dubya. Smoking may be her only consolation and early death her only way out.

Pam at 11:26AM on Mar 4th 2007