Obama still does under the radar, FDR actually made it part of his profile.
If I were a kid I’d justify it to my parents by pointing that out.
I presume other Presidents have had a cigar in their mouth now and then, because it’s a guy thing. (Did Kennedy smoke cigars regularly?)
Somked during their time in office? Or in their lives? Since the answer might be different. Bush the second for instance, was a two pack a day man in his youth, but had quit by the time of his election.
Clinton smoked, but he did not inhale.
Obama just released the results of his latest physical, which said he was tobacco-free.
A number of more recent presidents occasionally smoked cigars but didn’t regularly smoke cigarettes. Kennedy certainly smoked cigars.
Cigarettes were fairly rare until after the Civil War. Who the first president was to be known to smoke cigarettes is also a good question.
But no parent should let a kid get away with a smartmouth idiocy like that. Presidents have owned slaves. Heck, Nixon was a war criminal. 
What was the norm in that past makes no difference today. It didn’t work the other way around, either, when kids pointed out that Jesus had long hair.
Well, U.S. Grant died from it.
Cleveland was operated on for mouth cancer, but they never say whether that was tobacco related.
I know Harding must’ve chewed tobacco because he kept a lot of spittoons around, unless those were for his poker buddies.
That’s all I got, but I suppose there must be more. I mean, all that talk about smoke-filled backrooms and all.
I just heard tonight from Tom Brokaw on The Charlie Rose Show, who never lies–that he does. Hence this question.
Clinton was a Cigar smoker. He also used it as a penis substitute when Monica Lewinsky visited. Google if you want a site. There’s dozens out there.
I haven’t heard if Clinton gave up cigars after his heart surgery. Anyone know?
According to Cigar Magazine, JFK smoked cigars too.
http://www.cigarsmag.com/Celebrities_smokes_Cigar.htm
I think everyone of them used tobacco products at some time in their life. Maybe one didn’t, but it would be difficult to prove that.
I recall some documentary mentioning spittoons were in White House rooms at least until the turn of the twentieth century.
They would have been very ornate brass and I’m sure thoroughly scrubbed & polished by the white house staff daily.
It would be interesting to know exactly which President had them permanently removed.
Of course they were also in the Senate, and House of Representatives too.
LBJ and Ike both did, but I don’t know that they were still doing it in office.
Obama: Yes. Whether he does now is a different question, but he still did while president at some time.
GW Bush: Doubtful, given how much he was into exercise.
Clinton: Cigars, occasionally.
GHW Bush: Don’t know, but doubtful. May have while younger, considering how prevalent it was.
Reagan: Not while president, but he did ads for cigarettes in his acting days.
Carter: Don’t know, but don’t think so.
Ford: Pipe smoker, as were many in his cabinet.
Nixon: Don’t think so.
LBJ: Yes.
Kennedy: Cigars.
GWH Bush did smoke cigars.
Eisenhower smoked up to four packs a day (referenced here)
I wouldn’t be surprised if GW smoked at some time in his life. Again, given his age it would have been pretty normal.
Actually mean GHW Bush, while he was in office.
Yes, I know. What I meant was that I wouldn’t be surprised if the son smoked at some time in his life, given his age, even though he wasn’t a smoker while president. I don’t know if there is any documentation on that.
Given Mount Vernon’s history as a tobacco plantation, I would reckon that George Washington was a tobacco user of some sort. I’ve read nothing that mentioned whether he smoked / chewed / dipped tobacco during his presidency though.
I think he probably did. Jefferson also…
Franklin Roosevelt smoked cigarettes. There are photos of him with a cigarette in a long holder.
W states outright in his book that he used to smoke as a young man and he gave it up about the time he quit drinking.