Which Presidents were smokers?

[elperromagico]

This is in response to this post regarding Laura Bush's apparent smoking habit.

This is the list I've come up with so far:

Dubya: Ex-cigarette smoker
Clinton: Smoked cigars occasionally
Bush 41: ?
Reagan: Ex-cigarette smoker
Carter: ?
Ford: Smoked a pipe
Nixon: ?
Johnson: Ex-cigarette smoker
Kennedy: Smoked cigarettes and cigars
Eisenhower: Ex-cigarette smoker
Truman: ?
FDR: Smoked cigarettes

[OpSomBlood]

1. Great. Clinton and cigars in the same post.

I think I can hear the Freepers from here.

[elperromagico]

2. I know, I know.

But I did say he smoked them.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. And besides, that "other" use is actually healthier

Smoke in your lungs kills you. Sex usually doesn't.

[elperromagico]

11. Agreed. n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Wasn't Jefferson a tobacco farmer?

Or, more specifically, weren't Jefferson's slaves tobacco farmers?

[elperromagico]

5. Yes. Ditto for Washington. n/t

[OpSomBlood]

7. Washington grew hemp, too.

Don't know if he smoked it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Yes, I think I saw a dollar bill that said that once.

;)

[amber dog democrat]

4. Grant, Cigars

Hayes, Cigars ( ?)

[elperromagico]

6. Definitely Grant.

He died of throat cancer... I wonder what caused that?

[jmowreader]

10. Fun article on smoking presidents

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,817,00.html

James Madison: cigar smoker. Wife Dolley dipped snuff.
Andrew Jackson: tobacco chewer. He and his wife both smoked cigars.
Zachary Taylor: cigar smoker; smoked outside the house because it made his wife ill
Ulysses S. Grant: smoked a box of cigars a day
Chester Arthur: enjoyed the finest imported cigars
Benjamin Harrison: was kept supplied with cigars by an Indianapolis tobacconist who furnished them free
William McKinley: refused to smoke in view of the public, but chain-smoked cigars in private
William Taft: smoked cigars when he entered office but quit during his term
Warren Harding: smoked cigars "incessantly," brought his treasured humidor from his home to the White House
Calvin Coolidge: cigar smoker. Especially enjoyed "supercoronas" that were about a foot long
Eisenhower: cigar smoker who liked to end state dinners by leading all of the men n attendance to the Green Room for cigars and brandy
Kennedy: serious smoker of H. Upmann Petit Coronas
Nixon: smoked cigars only at state functions with other dignitaries
Ford: pipe smoker
Reagan: while not a smoker himself during his presidency, allowed his White House guests to smoke and offered complimentary tobacco during his first term
Bush 41: not a smoker
Clinton: liked to chew on the ends of cigars better than he liked to smoke them; first lady removed all of the ashtrays in the White House
Bush 43: not a legitimate president so who cares what he does? Probably a serious cigarette smoker

[LTR]

12. LBJ was a big-time cigarette smoker

He quit during his presidency.

[PAMod]

13. JFK and cigarettes. I never heard that before.

I know he loved H. Upmann Upmann Petites.

Jackie smoked cigarettes, but I don't think JFK did.