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US Presidents and smoking?

Help us settle a little debate. President Obama was elected to office while he was still a cigarette smoker. Who was the last sitting President before him that smoked cigarettes in office?

(Not cigars like Kennedy, just cigarettes.)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    a little list of Presidential Tobacco Preferences:

    George Washington 1789-1797 unknown

    John Adams 1797-1801 cigar

    Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 unknown

    James Madison 1809-1817 cigar

    James Monroe 1817-1825 unknown

    John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 cigar

    Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 cigar

    Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 pipe

    William Henry Harrison 1841 pipe

    John Tyler 1841-1845 cigar

    James Polk 1845-1849 none

    Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 cigar

    Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 none

    Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 unknown

    James Buchanan 1857-1861 unknown

    Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 unknown

    Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 cigar

    Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 cigar

    Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 unknown

    Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 cigar

    Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 chewing tobacco

    Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 cigar

    Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 chewing tobacco

    William McKinley 1897-1901 cigar

    Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 none

    Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 none

    Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 cigar

    Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 cigar

    Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 cigar

    Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 cigarette

    Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 none

    Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961 cigarette

    John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 cigar

    Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 cigar

    Richard Nixon 1969-1974 cigar

    Gerald Ford 1974-1977 pipe

    Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 none

    Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 none

    George Bush 1989-1993 none

    Bill Clinton 1993- cigar

    Eisenhower was the last

  • gile
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Clinton smoked the occassional fag.

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