John Boehner and Tobacco: He's Not Ready to Give Up Smoking

Let everyone in congress smoke. That would be a step toward term limits.

On top of the smoking, Boehner should be concerned about his tan. He's setting himself up for a double whammy. I'm sure he knows about the dangers of tanning (whether in the sun or in a tanning salon). He can do as he pleases but he is endangering his health, which is the most important thing going. If he does get sick (and I'm not wishing him any ill), he certainly will be taking advantage of the health care system that he tried so hard to break.

Boehner, try looking like a leader. With Obama "sneaking smokes", and people like the "smoking nurse" Carolyn McCarthy in Congress, what kind of example do you set for the younger people in this country?

I don"tremember hearing anything being said about President Obama bein a smoker before he was elected President so why does the media have to bring it up against Senator Boehner? Berniece

I will never understand why cigerettes have never been pulled off the market. If some sort of toxin is found in food, the food is banned. If a certain drug is found to cause more problems than benefits, away it goes. Cigerettes cause a deadly cancer, emphasema, heart problems, but they are still available. Doesn't make sense to me. By the way, I'm a smoker.

Tobacco is legal. However, it has provided government a nifty little way of generating revenue. The cost of ciggarettes is outrageous. I remember when you could buy them for 35 cents a pack, now you pay over $6.00. The tax on ciggarettes was suppose to cure the ills of the children, the elderly and whatever else the government deemed, what more do they want? Good heavens, don't buy into this demonization of Boehner, especially in light of the fact they he and the President may sit around smoking together. To look at one and not the other is ludicrous and very small minded.

What a waste of time! With all of the problems facing our country, someone's smoking is at best irrelevant. Schieffer is about due to retire.

Nothing is worse than a reformed smoker. They have all the answers for everyone else instead of taking care of their own lives.

If he smokes or takes money from the tobacco industry, so what? Both are still legal and the taxes paid by us and the industry to the federal government with every pack sold are in the billions. If the government really cared about us out here, they would make all tobacco products illegal, just from the health concern. Does anyone think the fed are going to give up billions just to make us healthy? Not likely, money and power are the most important thing to the democrats, and some republicans. They will do anything even allow things out there that kill millions of us. So what if he takes money from "big tobacco", they all do. All this mud slinging, I watch who is throwing and think twice before voting for them.

smoking is nasty and cost everyone, dont think it doesnt, it is very hard to quit too, boeher and obama should both quit