Okay, Who Was the Last President Who Smoked?

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[MoralSense]

I know the answer. Do you?

[Krafty123]

"I didn't inhale".

[Cyber Liberty]

FDR?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Nixon?

[areafiftyone]

Bubba (Cigars!)

[mass55th]

Kennedy smoked cigars

[small_l_libertarian]

There's a photo of Bubba smoking a cigar, but he claims it wasn't lit. (The smoke is apparently a figment of my imagination.)

That's not who you meant, though, I bet.

[My2Cents]

LBJ. I think.

[mass55th]

Bubba (Cigars!)

He didn't smoke them...he used them to take the temperature of interns.

[CJ Wolf]

Please clarify, "smoked" What?

[L,TOWM]

If you mean cigarrettes, that would be LBJ.

[Labyrinthos]

You need to be a little more specific: Smoked what? Cigarettes, tobacco in any form, reefer? At any time or only while occupying the White House?

[socal_parrot]

[July 4th]

Found this on the net: "Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt and their wives preferred cigarettes; Jackie Kennedy and Pat Nixon also smoked. JFK puffed a cigar, and Gerald Ford a pipe, but no president or first lady since Ford's day has been a regular smoker." USA Weekend, Jun. 3, '01

[Zavien Doombringer]

he used them to take the temperature of interns.

Make that BASAL body Temperature

[wardaddy]

W has been known to smoke stogies.

I would guess LBJ on cigarettes.

[small_l_libertarian]

Actually, I read that Laura Bush smokes.

[Sir Gawain]

Me.

[P-Marlowe]

Did they have to smoke in the White House? Or does smoking in the high school bathroom when they were 17 count?

The Last President to smoke in the White House (cigarettes not doobies) was probably Gerald Ford. If you count doobies, it was probably Clinton.

The last President to smoke in the high school bathroom was definitely GWB.

[Huck]

How about the last President with facial hair?

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

I thought somebody smoked Bubba....

[ctlpdad]

That's how clintoon has safe sex - not lighting the cigar

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I thought I heard that Laura Bush is a smoker, and that she bummed cigarettes off some friendly types in the press.

[Chi-townChief]

If I recall, Tricky Dick smoked Kools.

[amused]

C'mon....all the cooooool kids are doing it ;-)

[steve-b]

LBJ. I think.

Nah, I think the previous posters are right about it being just "BJ".

[areafiftyone]

YUCK!!!

[bonfire]

Now I like Laura even more.

[small_l_libertarian]

I'm sure his partner is very grateful that he practices safe sex!

[belle99]

It's Dubya, the hottie, that 'smokes'!!!

[Zavien Doombringer]

AH SOOoo, An Amrican cigarette, not as stwong as Tai Stick!

[SamAdams76]

Who was the last president who drank a fifth of scotch every day? Ted Kennedy was never president so there goes your easy answer.

Anyway, let me take a guess on your questions. Dwight Eisenhower. Though I know some of the First Ladies smoked cigarettes too including Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford.

[July 4th]

I always thought this was a cool ad:

[CJ Wolf]

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

[steve-b]

How about the last President with facial hair?

Hillary?

[brewcrew]

How about the last President with facial hair?

They all had facial hair. Some of them let it grow. Others shaved it off.

[MoralSense]

How about the last President with facial hair? Taft.

[ctlpdad]

not that he cares about the partner

[justshe]

When you post the answer, please ping me.

[CaptRon]

When I was a Midshipman I had volunteered to spend some time at Quantico. This was during Nixon's administration.

While there we were taken to see Marine 1, the President's helicopter. In the hanger there was also Marine 2, a UH-1 painted the same as Marine 1. The hatch was open and inside the door I could see a small bracket which was holding two packs of cigarettes (Lucky Strike filters, I believe). So my guess is Richard Nixon.

[small_l_libertarian]

Well, at least he hasn't set one on fire yet (that we know of...)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Neat advertisement.

[widowithfoursons]

Bubba after his wife turned the Whitehouse into a no smoke zone. Just to annoy her with his adolescent behavior. But she probably bought the vasaline.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

As someone whose brother is battling stage four adrinocarcinoma with brain metastases, I don’t really care.

I would suggest that those who do smoke quit.

[Phantom Lord]

Hillary wouldn't let him lit them! And he even admitted it!

[Phantom Lord]

She isn't president though.

[socal_parrot]

On Kennedy and cigars...

One day in 1961, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the president took legendary action that has become a classic anecdote of cigar love. JFK called his cigar-smoking press secretary Pierre Salinger into the Oval Office and said, "I need a lot of cigars." "How many, Mr. President?" "About a thousand. Tomorrow morning, call all your friends who have cigars and just get as many as you can." Salinger rushed out and grabbed as many H. Upmann petits as he could find. The next morning there was an urgent message for him to enter the Oval Office immediately. "How did you do on the cigars last night?" asked Kennedy. "Mr. President," replied Salinger, "I was very successful. I got eleven hundred." With that, Kennedy opened a drawer in his desk and pulled out a decree banning all Cuban products from entry into the United States. "Good," he replied. "Now that I have enough cigars to last awhile, I can sign this!"

Quote from San Francisco Examiner magazine, December 15, 1996, pp. 40-42

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Very interesting.

[lilylangtree]

Bubba and his infamous cigar! Wonder if he kept it for a souvenir? For that matter, wonder if he took the tip of each individual cigar and boldly went where every man's gone before?

[small_l_libertarian]

I am searching Google right now for the photo, but am having no luck yet. He's on a golf course, holding the cigar in his hand, and the smoke is swirling around his head, like he just puffed on it and moved his hand. As soon as I find it (if I ever do), I will post it.

(I'd love to get my hands on the proof that he disobeyed the Hildabeast. Maybe she'll hit him upside the head with another ashtray!)