A former smoker says Barack Obama should light up again.
In a guest column in the New York Times today, author Tony Horwitz says that taking back up the smoking habit might help the Democratic presidential nominee:
Bottom line: small-towners in the Rust Belt and Appalachia don’t cling to guns and religion so much as they do cigarettes.
By rejoining them, Mr. Obama would also touch voters in several heavy-smoking swing states: Michigan, Missouri and Nevada. Added bonus — Virginia and North Carolina, two leading tobacco-producing states, are both in play this election.
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