U.S. President Barack Obama is a cigarette smoker. Who was the last U.S. president who also smoked cigarettes?

Zbeckabee

President Tobacco Issue In Office? John Adams smoked and chewed yes Andrew Jackson addicted? - Zachary Taylor chewed tobacco - Millard Fillmore nonsmoker - Ulysses Grant abuse? - Chester Arthur lavish lifestyle yes Grover Cleveland cigars - Benjamin Harrison cigar smoker - William Taft generally abstained - Warren Harding tobacco habits - Dwight Eisenhower chimney, then quit - John Kennedy cigars - Gerald Ford pipe smoker - Ronald Reagan quit smoking - George W. Bush tobacco chewing - George W. Bush cigars yes Barack Obama cigarettes - http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/o_smoke.html Mar 01 10, 11:07 PM

queproblema

The question asks about cigarettes, but if we're including cigars, let's not forget Bill Clinton's Oval Office stash. Not sure he smoked them, though. Not gonna quote it, but you can find the story here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky Mar 01 10, 11:14 PM

Zbeckabee

President William Jefferson Clinton may have comfortably adjusted to the ban on smoking in the White House--it seems he doesn't light up ... anymore. In effect, he hasn't been banned from enjoying a cigar, just smoking it. In this way he can avoid any accusations of inhalation, and he is still able to savor some of a cigar's more relaxing elements. Over recent years, there have been all forms and manners of tobacco use in the White House by presidents and their families. Gerald Ford, the last U.S. president to use tobacco on a regular basis, is an inveterate pipe smoker. Ike and FDR stuck to cigarettes as did both their wives and several other twentieth-century first ladies including Jacqueline Kennedy. More: http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,106,00.html Mar 01 10, 11:23 PM

queproblema

Seems FDR with his fancy cigarette holder was the last one to smoke them while president. http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question31117.html http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/eise/entertainingMore.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6203834.html Mar 02 10, 2:54 AM

Zbeckabee

Presidential Tobacco Preferences naming Eisenhower as the last cigarette smoker: 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 http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,106,00.html Eisenhower quit smoking in March, 1949: http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g34.htm Mar 02 10, 5:55 AM