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Obama to Quit -- Smoking, That Is
Political Wunderkind Ready for White House Run, First Opponent Marlboro Reds
By JAKE TAPPER
Feb. 7, 2007 — When Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., officially enters the stressful world of presidential politics this Saturday, he will be trying his hardest to resist the urge to smoke those Marlboro Red cigarettes he has relied upon for years.
Instead, he has pledged to his wife, Michelle, that he will chew Nicorette gum.
Before the Run, Obama Needs to Quit
Obama may face several daunting challengers in the months to come — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., a prying media, a conservative attack machine and the tricky politics of race. But none may prove as mighty a foe as his nicotine habit.
"I've never been a heavy smoker," Obama told the Chicago Tribune. "I've quit periodically over the last several years. I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don't succumb. I've been chewing Nicorette strenuously."
Obama aides say that the main reason Michelle Obama has been pushing so hard for her husband to quit the demon weed is for health reasons, but of course for any public figure, one also has to factor in the image of the habit — either out of concerns he would be setting a bad example, or that he may turn off some voters.
An unscientific sampling of men and women on the street indicates that the public wants him to quit, though they do not consider a cigarette habit to be a disqualification for office, however much cigarettes have been linked to cancer, heart disease and impotence.
"Serving as a role model for the rest of the country," remarked one woman. "Yeah, I think he needs to quit smoking if he is going to run for president."
Added Sue Wycoff of St. Paul, Minn., "having a daughter who died from lung cancer, we kind of feel strongly that smoking is not smart."
"But he's got two years to become a reformed smoker," chimed in her husband, Peter. "And those are the most adamant people."
"And he is not an alcoholic," added Sue. "That would be worse."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2855994&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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he needs to quit the fried chicken while hes at it
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Has Bush kicked his cocaine habit yet?
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Has Bush kicked his cocaine habit yet?
I hope so. :)
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Greaaat. He quit smoking. Again.
No more smoke-filled rooms for Obama?
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - The president may have kicked his smoking habit once and for all. It has been about nine months since the president's last cigarette, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" set to air Sunday, Gibbs said he still chews Nicorette, but that the president used "stubborn willpower" to stop.
"It was a commitment that I think he made to himself at the end of the health care and with his two daughters in mind," Gibbs told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley.
Gibbs also said this is the longest period, in the almost eight years he's known the president that he's gone without smoking.
"It's really stuck," Gibbs said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/25/obama’s-smoking-announcement/#more-140957
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Probably getting back into coke and pot.
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Palin will smoke a carton of newports on her show this week to protest obama's example. She'll also trumpet the impact his actions have upon the tobacco industry - putting all those poor people out of work down at Philip morris.
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Palin will smoke a carton of newports on her show this week to protest obama's example. She'll also trumpet the impact his actions have upon the tobacco industry - putting all those poor people out of work down at Philip morris.
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Sort of hard to have a genuine health message when the First Lady looks overweight and the president struggles with the cancer sticks.
First Lady: President Obama has quit smoking
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE,Associated Press
POSTED: 09:31 a.m. HST, Feb 08, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama finally has kicked the smoking habit, Michelle Obama said Tuesday.
"Yes, he has," the first lady told reporters at the White House when asked whether her husband had finally done what millions of Americans cannot seem to do and quit smoking. "It's been almost a year."
She said she did not know exactly when he quit "because he never smoked a lot" and she never saw him light up.
The issue of Obama's smoking last surfaced in December, when press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about it and said he had not seen Obama smoke in nine months. That would have put Obama's final puffs somewhere in March.
At the time, Gibbs stopped short of asserting that the president had quit outright. But the president's wife was a bit more direct Tuesday.
"He's always wanted to stop," the first lady said, explaining that daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, are getting to an age where he wants to be able to look them in the face and deny it should they decide to ask him whether he smokes.
Mrs. Obama said the process of quitting has been a "personal challenge" for the president who, when questioned about it in June 2009, acknowledged that he often sneaked an occasional puff.
"I constantly struggle with it," Obama said. "Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No."
Obama said he did not smoke in front of his kids or his family, and had declared himself "95 percent cured." But he acknowledged then that there still were times "where I mess up."
"Once you've gone down this path, then it's something you continually struggle with," he said.
Mrs. Obama said Tuesday that she was very proud of her husband, but that she has not pressed him for details.
"I haven't really poked and prodded him on this," she said. "When somebody's doing the right thing you don't mess with them."
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/115581109.html
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Sort of hard to have a genuine health message when the First Lady looks overweight and the president struggles with the cancer sticks.
there's that christian compassion we've come to expect from you
Obama kicks the cigs and his wife advocates for healthy diet and exercise (and doesn't look overweight) and you've got nothing but petty criticism
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its all about the issues
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Probably getting back into coke and pot.
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Palin will smoke a carton of newports on her show this week to protest obama's example. She'll also trumpet the impact his actions have upon the tobacco industry - putting all those poor people out of work down at Philip morris.
Nice :)
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Riiiight.
Obama Substitutes Celery for Cigarettes
Updated: Thursday, 17 Feb 2011, 8:52 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 17 Feb 2011, 8:52 PM EST
(NewsCore) - US President Barack Obama has a secret weapon in his battle against his smoking habit -- celery, he revealed in an interview gaining traction Thursday.
First Lady Michelle Obama said earlier this month that her husband had not smoked a cigarette for almost a year.
In an interview posted late Wednesday, Obama confirmed to 4029tv.com that he had given up smoking for good -- however the stresses of being commander-in-chief have seen him adopt a healthier addiction.
"There's certainly days where I've got to grab a lot of celery sticks to make up for that bad habit that I gave up," Obama said.
In the wide-ranging interview, the president once again called on Republicans to work with Democrats on issues such as Medicare and Medicaid, and said he found it difficult to use his position as president to simply push things through.
"Sometimes if something's labeled the Obama plan, it's very hard for Republicans to support it," he conceded.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpps/news/obama-substitutes-celery-for-cigarettes-dpgonc-20110217-gc_11933961
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He's addicted to celery?
Oh brother. What an amazing story. ::)
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Limbaugh takes aim at Michelle Obama's waistline
By: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Washington (CNN) - Michelle Obama is taking heat from talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh after a report in the Vail Daily that she consumed a not-so-healthy-meal of ribs for dinner while on a recent visit to the Colorado resort, the latest example of conservative angst directed at the first lady's healthy-eating initiative.
"The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice," Limbaugh said Monday on his radio program. "And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving."
"She is a hypocrite," Limbaugh continued. "Leaders are supposed to be leaders. If we are supposed to go out and eat nothing, if we are supposed to eat roots, berries, and tree bark, show us how."
The Vail Daily reported Sunday Mrs. Obama dined at the restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail Village, ordering "a pickled pumpkin salad with arugula and a braised ancho-chile short rib with hominy wild mushrooms and sautéed kale." The first family, minus the president, went to Colorado for a long weekend of skiing.
"I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you," Limbaugh also said Monday.
Limbaugh's comments cap off a week of jabs directed at the first lady over her campaign to fight childhood obesity, taking flak from Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, among others, for encouraging mothers to breast feed their children as a way to keep obesity levels down.
Mrs. Obama was also the subject of a controversial cartoon last week on conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart's website, in which an over-weight depiction of the first lady is shown telling her husband, "Shut up and pass the bacon!"
A website devoted to Mrs. Obama's anti-obesity effort lays out how the waistlines of American children have been growing at alarming rates over the last 30 years.
"The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake," Mrs. Obama is quoted as saying on the site.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/21/limbaugh-takes-aim-at-michelle-obamas-waistline/#more-147706
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Limbaugh takes aim at Michelle Obama's waistline
pot calling kettle black
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Barrack Hussein Obama approved.
FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Published June 21, 2011
Associated Press
Rotting teeth. Diseased lungs. A corpse of a smoker.
Nine new warning labels featuring graphic images that convey the dangers of smoking will be required by the Food and Drug Administration to be on U.S. cigarette packs by 2012.
Other images include a man with a tracheotomy smoking and a mother holding a baby with smoke swirling around them. The labels will include phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer."
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This composite image shows three of the FDA's new warning labels for cigarette packages.
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FDA Pushes Graphic Images on Cigarette Packs
Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans to use for larger, graphic warning labels on cigarette packages
The labels, which the FDA released Tuesday, are a part of the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years. They're aimed at curbing tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths in the U.S. a year.
The labels will take up the top half — both front and back — of a pack of cigarettes and each will include a national quit smoking hotline number. Warning labels also must appear in advertisements and constitute 20 percent of an ad. Cigarette makers have until the fall of 2012 to comply.
"These kind of graphic warning labels strengthen the understanding of people about the health risks of smoking," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We clearly have to renew a national conversation around these issues and enhance awareness."
Mandates to introduce new graphic warning labels were part of a law passed in 2009 that, for the first time, gave the federal government authority to regulate tobacco, including setting guidelines for marketing and labeling, banning certain products and limiting nicotine. The announcement follows reviews of scientific literature, public comments and results from an FDA-contracted study of 36 labels proposed last November.
The legality of the new labels is part of a pending federal lawsuit filed by Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Reynolds American Inc., parent company of America's second-largest cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds; No. 3 cigarette maker, Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Inc.; and others.
Tobacco makers in the lawsuit have argued the warnings would relegate the companies' brands to the bottom half of the cigarette packaging, making them "difficult, if not impossible, to see."
A spokesman for Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., parent company of the nation's largest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, said the company was looking at the final labels but would not comment further.
In recent years, more than 30 countries or jurisdictions have introduced labels similar to those being introduced by the FDA. The U.S. first mandated the use of warning labels stating
"Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health" in 1965. Current warning labels — a small box with black and white text — were put on cigarette packs in the mid-1980s.
The FDA says the new labels will "clearly and effectively convey the health risks of smoking" aimed at encouraging current smokers to quit and discouraging nonsmokers and youth from starting to use cigarettes.
"These labels are frank, honest and powerful depictions of the health risks of smoking," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
American Cancer Society CEO John R. Seffrin applauded the new labels in a statement, saying they have the potential to "encourage adults to give up their deadly addiction to cigarettes and deter children from starting in the first place."
The new labels come as the share of Americans who smoke has fallen dramatically since 1970, from nearly 40 percent to about 20 percent. The rate has stalled since about 2004. About 46 million adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes.
It's unclear why declines in smoking have stalled. Some experts have cited tobacco company discount coupons on cigarettes or lack of funding for programs to discourage smoking or to help smokers quit.
While it is impossible to say how many people quit because of the labels, various studies suggest the labels do spur people to quit. The new labels offer the opportunity for a pack-a-day smoker to see graphic warnings on the dangers of cigarettes more than 7,000 times per year.
The FDA estimates the new labels will reduce the number of smokers by 213,000 in 2013, with smaller additional reductions through 2031.
Tobacco use costs the U.S. economy nearly $200 billion annually in medical costs and lost productivity, the FDA said. Tobacco companies spend about $12.5 billion annually on cigarette advertising and promotion, according to the latest data from the Federal Trade Commission.
The World Health Organization said in a survey done in countries with graphic warning labels that a majority of smokers noticed the warnings and more than 25 percent said the warnings led them to consider quitting.
While some have voiced concerns over the hard-hitting nature of some of the labels, those concerns should be trumped by the government's responsibility to warn people about the dangers of smoking, said David Hammond, a health behavior researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who worked with the firm designing the labels for the FDA.
"This isn't about doing what's pleasant for people. It's about fulfilling the government's mandate if they're going to allow these things to be sold," Hammond said. "What's bothering people is the risk associated with their behavior, not the warnings themselves."
In places like Canada, Hammond said smokers offended by some of the images on cigarettes packs there started asking for different packs when they received ones with certain gory images, or used a case to cover them up. But smokers said those warnings still had an effect on them.
Canada introduced similar warning labels in 2000. Since then, its smoking rates have declined from about 26 percent to about 20 percent. How much the warnings contributed to the decline is unclear because the country also implemented other tobacco control efforts.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/21/fda-issues-graphic-cigarette-labels/?test=latestnews
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We Are Sending E-Cigs to President Obama. The Washington Times Reports.
by AuthorJeff Stier | DateNov 11, 2014
The Washington Times’ Cheryl K. Chumley reported today,
President Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation summit in China raised some eyebrows Tuesday morning, at least among members of the attending press pool and an observant Chinese blogger — for chewing gum at inappropriate times.
Mentioned in the middle of the press pool report, right after the reference that Mr. Obama “took his seat” and chatted with Marvin Nicholson — who “made him smile” — was this line: “[He] leaned back in his chair for the opening remarks. He was chewing his Nicorette, it seemed, but mostly hiding it.”
Before the president’s trip, I had been preparing a cover letter to send along with a sample of e-cigarettes that the Risk Analysis Division of the National Center for Public Policy Research will send to President Obama. As a longtime smoker, and while his Food and Drug Administration is preparing rules to regulate e-cigarettes, also known as electronic nicotine delivery systems, or ENDS, as well as cigars, and other tobacco products, we think it is essential that the president, who appears to still use nicotine, understands the range of less harmful products available to him and countless smokers in the U.S., China, and around the world.
As the director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller told the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Right now the overwhelming majority of people seeking nicotine are getting it from the deadliest and most toxic delivery system, and that’s the conventional cigarette. But if there is a continuum of risk and there are less harmful ways to get nicotine, and FDA is in the business of regulating virtually all of those products, then I think there’s an extraordinary public health opportunity for the agency to embrace some of these principles and to figure out how to incorporate it into regulatory policies.
So I shared or plan with the Ms. Chumley of The Washington Times, who promptly reported on our plan,
Who says politics is boring? A D.C. conservative think tank with a stake in the feds’ push to regulate e-cigarettes has stumbled on a creative way to get its message out, thanks to President Obama’s gum-chewing gaffe in China.
“We’re getting together a variety of e-cigarettes to send Obama, to give him some choices,” said Jeff Stier, senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, in a brief telephone call.
His announcement comes on the heels of Mr. Obama’s widely reported gum-chewing incidents at the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation summit in China, which drew fire from several native observers who found his actions uncouth. One, for example, wrote of seeing Obama “stepping out of his carchewing gum like an idler,” USA Today reported.
But Mr. Stier’s group thinks it’s found a way to defuse the public relations tensions — with a humorous mailing that nonetheless carries a message.
Had Obama taken along a couple of e-cigs with him, he wouldn’t have felt the need to chomp on nicotine gum, thus he wouldn’t have offended his Chinese hosts in the process.
“Had he been vaping, he could have satisfied his nicotine craving … without offending,” he said. “The NCPPR is sending a variety or e-cigarettes to the president, when he returns from China.”
The organization has been pushing for the Food and Drug Administration to back off regulations of e-cigarettes, saying an over-regulated approach will actually prevent tobacco smokers from quitting and using the vapor product as a substitute.
Gregory Conley, research fellow at the Heartland Institute applauded both President Obama and our gift to him, noting,
President Obama is a great example of harm reduction in action. Once a daily smoker, he is now living a smoke-free life thanks to long-term nicotine use. We are hopeful that the National Center’s care package will cause President Obama and his staff to carefully examine the negative impact that the FDA’s proposed regulation of e-cigarettes would have on public health.
We are going to send a select variety of products including flavors, open systems, closed systems, cigalikes, products from independent companies, from “Big Tobacco”, made in the USA, and even products from… well, China.
http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2014/11/11/we-are-sending-e-cigs-to-president-obama-the-washington-time.html
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We Are Sending E-Cigs to President Obama. The Washington Times Reports.
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(NEWSER) – Glenn Beck said today that he suffers from a severe neurological disease that doctors are unable to diagnose, MediaBistro reports. Appearing on TheBlaze, the conservative pundit says doctors have given him 5 to 10 years before he's unable to function. He also divulged seizures dating back to his time on Fox, where he says crew members would take the camera off him when his pain was debilitating. "My hands, feet, arms and legs feel like someone had just crushed them, or pushed broken glass into my feet," Beck says during a tearful interview. "The doctors tell me I haven’t had REM sleep in as much as a decade." Beck says his health was one reason he moved to Dallas' warmer climate: "My doctors thought if I stayed in New York City, I wouldn’t be alive today," he adds.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/225298-source-billy-joel-says-obama-invited-him-for-a-smoke-at-white
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Bad news for the president.
On-base tobacco prices to rise
By Leo Shane III, Staff writer 11:07 a.m. EST December 10, 2014
Tobacco products on base are about to get more expensive.
Language in both the sweeping budget resolution and annual defense authorization bill pending before lawmakers this week would drop the 5 percent discount offered to customers on tobacco products at military exchanges.
Lawmakers had targeted the cheaper cigarettes and chew earlier this year, saying the discounted products undermine larger military efforts to discourage smoking among troops because of the long-term health concerns.
Current Defense Department rules allow military exchanges and commissaries to sell tobacco products at a price as low as 5 percent below "local community" prices. But those averages can vary wildly, allowing some troops to buy tobacco at discounts of 20 percent or more.
The new measures would "prohibit the sale of a product at a price below the most competitive price for that product in the local community," effectively dumping that discount.
For some troops, it will mean a price jump of $1 per pack of cigarettes in January.
Defense officials are conducting a force-wide review of tobacco policies, with a final report expected in coming days. Past Pentagon estimates have stated that tobacco-related illnesses drain $1.6 billion annually from military health care accounts.
About 25 percent of troops smoke cigarettes, compared to about 20 percent of civilians. Roughly 13 percent use smokeless tobacco products, compared to 3 percent of civilians.
Navy officials have discussed eliminating tobacco sales on base, in an effort to further discourage the practice.
House lawmakers balked at that idea in the spring, and included language mandating that sales of tobacco and other "legal" products continue at military exchanges. But that provision was stripped from the final defense authorization bill.
Both the budget resolution and authorization bill are expected to be finalized this week, Congress' last week of legislative business before the end of the year.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2014/12/10/tobacco-prices-congress/20190317/?sf34536635=1
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Bad news for the president.
On-base tobacco prices to rise
By Leo Shane III, Staff writer 11:07 a.m. EST December 10, 2014
Tobacco products on base are about to get more expensive.
Language in both the sweeping budget resolution and annual defense authorization bill pending before lawmakers this week would drop the 5 percent discount offered to customers on tobacco products at military exchanges.
Lawmakers had targeted the cheaper cigarettes and chew earlier this year, saying the discounted products undermine larger military efforts to discourage smoking among troops because of the long-term health concerns.
Current Defense Department rules allow military exchanges and commissaries to sell tobacco products at a price as low as 5 percent below "local community" prices. But those averages can vary wildly, allowing some troops to buy tobacco at discounts of 20 percent or more.
The new measures would "prohibit the sale of a product at a price below the most competitive price for that product in the local community," effectively dumping that discount.
For some troops, it will mean a price jump of $1 per pack of cigarettes in January.
Defense officials are conducting a force-wide review of tobacco policies, with a final report expected in coming days. Past Pentagon estimates have stated that tobacco-related illnesses drain $1.6 billion annually from military health care accounts.
About 25 percent of troops smoke cigarettes, compared to about 20 percent of civilians. Roughly 13 percent use smokeless tobacco products, compared to 3 percent of civilians.
Navy officials have discussed eliminating tobacco sales on base, in an effort to further discourage the practice.
House lawmakers balked at that idea in the spring, and included language mandating that sales of tobacco and other "legal" products continue at military exchanges. But that provision was stripped from the final defense authorization bill.
Both the budget resolution and authorization bill are expected to be finalized this week, Congress' last week of legislative business before the end of the year.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2014/12/10/tobacco-prices-congress/20190317/?sf34536635=1
why did you revive a 7 year old thread just to remind us how stupid you are ?
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why did you revive a 7 year old thread just to remind us how stupid you are ?
Cause whiners gonna whine.
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Global warming didn't give Malia asthma: Column
James S. Robbins
April 9, 2015
President's smoking more likely to cause daughter's health problem than climate change.
President Obama blames global warming for his daughter's asthma. Today that's politically useful spin, but the science says something different. If you're looking for a culprit, it just might be Malia's dad.
In an interview Wednesday, in support of a new White House climate change awareness campaign, the president noted that his 16-year-old daughter had asthma when she was 4. He said that as a father, when your child says she has trouble breathing, "the fright you feel is terrible." Fortunately, doctors were able to treat Malia's condition quickly.
The president connected his daughter's malady to global climate change. In a discussion Tuesday, he said "all of our families are going to be vulnerable" to global warming-induced health risks because "you can't cordon yourself off from air or from climate."
A White House fact sheet connected the dots, saying that asthma rates have more than doubled in the past 30 years, and that "climate change is putting these individuals and many other vulnerable populations at greater risk of landing in the hospital" like Malia.
The good news is that there is less reason for alarm than the White House suggests. The Environmental Protection Agency cautions that "outdoor air pollution and pollen may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma." Yet the EPA also reports that our air quality has substantially improved; aggregate emissions of common pollutants have decreased 62% between 1980 and 2013. It is unlikely that cleaner air is causing the increase in asthma.
Whether there is a link between asthma and global warming, Malia herself hasn't really experienced much. The high school junior was born in 1998, when temperatures spiked. By some measurements, the world hasn't warmed significantly since then.
Which brings us back to her father and his Marlboros. The president, who quit smoking years ago, has long kept his tobacco use out of doors. That's a common-sense tactic for folks who have trouble quitting. But sometimes, science can show that common sense has less sense than you think.
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health has shown that smoking outside doesn't totally protect children from secondhand smoke. Even when smoking is done outside, nicotine in infants' hair is five times higher for babies with outside smoking parents than non-smoking parents. Smoking-related chemicals in infants' urine is seven times higher. Other studies have found similar results.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "tobacco smoke is one of the most common asthma triggers," and "if you have asthma, it's important that you avoid exposure to secondhand smoke."
No father wants to feel that his habits might hurt his children. But sometimes you have to look in the mirror to find the guilty party, not search the stratosphere for a hidden culprit.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/04/09/smoking-global-warming-obama-asthma-column/25529419/