Obama admits occasional cigarette
One day after signing legislation giving the government unprecedented power to regulate tobacco, President Barack Obama is admitting that he’s sometimes “fallen off the wagon” in his own effort to stop smoking.
Obama told reporters Tuesday that he’s “95 percent cured.” But he added that “there are times where I mess up.”
He said he’s not a “daily” or “constant” smoker, and that he doesn’t smoke in front of his kids.
But he said that just like with alcoholics, it’s something you “continually struggle with.”
Obama said that’s why the anti-smoking legislation is so important — because he doesn’t want “kids to go down that path to begin with.”
