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Puff the Magic Bureaucrat!

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TIME

Despite the current climate, there are still a few people in Washington who have a nodding familiarity with tobacco:

Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist’s claims the President “smokes” Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s … The FDA’s David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking … Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man … Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton’s Inauguration, he’s rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford (D-Ky.).

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