Obama's vice: smoking
How successful Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is at quitting smoking could depend on why he does it in the first place. Does he light up simply out of habit, after a good meal perhaps, or while kicking back to watch TV? Or do stressful situations cause the U.S. senator from Illinois to put a match to his Marlboro? Situations such as dealing with reporters lobbing him trick questions? .
Obama Campaigns as a Quitter
In the history of campaign promises, Barack Obama's latest might also be the toughest to keep. Read my lips, he's essentially pledging, "no Newports." Actually, he's a Marlboro man. But Obama has made a promise to his wife—and because the press got wind of it, the public—to quit smoking during his presidential bid. He's on the Nicorette now instead. As a service to the senator from Illinois, Radar has identified a few areas of stress in his presidential campaign where he might be more tempted than usual to smoke a butt: • Obama's L.A. Times coverage. In a story Sunday, the Times quotes Obama's fellow activists who say there are too many "I"s in Obama's memoir, suggesting he played up his activist role in the 1980s. The next day, Obama dispatched his people to write a point-by-point refutation of the story.
Every Famous Person Alive Chucks Cash At Barack Obama
A wise person once told us "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always wins." OK, not so much a wise person as a drunk tramp sitting in a puddle of his own fluid at a bus stop when we were six years old, but the point still stands. And at the moment it looks like the government that America will get next year will be headed by Barack Obama - the coke-snortin', fag-smoking Democrat hopeful - because literally everyone famous that you've ever heard of is throwing money at Barack Obama like it's going out of fashion. At a posh fundraiser for Barack Obama, stars like Eddie Murphy and Steven Spielberg all chipped in to raise more than a million dollars for his presidential campaign, possibly in return for better tax breaks for movies about black actors dressed up as fat elderly women.Here at hecklerspray we've never really much concerned ourselves with politics, partly because it's easier to make jokes about Britney Spears going loopy-doo and partly because we've seen what gigantic crashing dunderheads famous people turn into when they try and talk about politics - yes Alec Baldwin, 50 Cent, Flea and Pink, we mean you.
Stop-smoking tips for you and Obama
When they were serving together in the Illinois Senate, now-retired state Sen. Denny Jacobs said, his colleague Barack Obama was not a heavy smoker. "He'd normally sneak one from me once every three or four days and, of course, when we'd play poker occasionally," Jacobs said. Now that the junior U.S. senator from Illinois has publicly declared his intention to quit smoking (he says he normally smoked four or five cigarettes a day), Jacobs said he thinks the stress-filled life of a possible presidential campaign could actually help his former poker buddy quit. "I think sometimes if you're more active, it helps." But if Obama wants to quit_and maybe you do too_Carol Southard, a smoking-cessation specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, offers some advice: _ Chantix, a new prescription drug.
Products help smokers, Obama put end to habit
When they were serving together in the Illinois Senate, now-retired state Sen. Denny Jacobs said, his colleague Barack Obama was not a heavy smoker. "He'd normally sneak one from me once every three or four days and, of course, when we'd play poker occasionally," Jacobs said. Now that the junior U.S. senator from Illinois has publicly declared his intention to quit smoking (he says he normally smoked four or five cigarettes a day), Jacobs said he thinks the stress-filled life of a possible presidential campaign could help his former poker buddy quit. "I think sometimes if you're more active, it helps." Carol Southard, a smoking-cessation specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, offers some advice: Chantix, a new prescription drug.
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