# How many Presidents smoked?

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**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-presidents-smoked/601589 "2011-11-02T04:17:11Z")\
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> [@missred](#):
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> 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.

Pipes were the common form of tobacco smoking in those days. Especially in the upper classes. I’d assume that all the taverns in Philadelphia were dense with pipe smoke during the writing of the Constitution.

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