# Bad habits of US presidents?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-habits-of-us-presidents/229983>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 19, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-habits-of-us-presidents/229983 "2004-02-19T07:26:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-habits-of-us-presidents/229983/21 "2004-02-19T23:35:46Z")

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If you find the Newsmax article a little lacking in anything beyond speculation, you can try the [Columbia Journalism Review](http://archives.cjr.org/year/92/6/jennifer.asp)’s 1992 article on Jennifer Fitzgerald that concludes:

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> Thus, after a flashy two-day cancan staged by Alexander Hamilton’s favorite tab, a curtain came down on the story. There was no denying that it had great legs, but it was hard not to notice that it lacked a journalistic essential – a visible, living, talking head.

Maybe that’s why you didn’t know about it, **Sigene**.

Nixon was apparently an occasional smoker.

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