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Word comes from the Chicago Tribune that Barack Obama is… quitting smoking! (Can’t resist: “Up Next! Hillary Cuts Her Toenails!”)
The real issue is, what happens to Obama’s smoking advantage?!? You know, the one that was ridiculously overblown, never actually existed, and was just a product of over-caffeinated political junkies looking for any angle at all to write a counter-intuitive story.
