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SCOTT SIMON, host: Talk about stress. Your popularity ratings(民望评分，支持度) are dipping, pundits pound you from the left and the right, you get shellacked(打败) in midterm elections, the unemployment rate stalls near 10 percent. Then one day a friend elbows you in the chops, under the basket, and you need so many stitches(缝线，[喻]手术) that you can't even pronounce superfluous(多余的，不必要的).

Is this really the best time to try to give up smoking? This week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he hadn't seen President Obama smoking in probably nine months. And just in time. This week a new Surgeon General's report detailed the damage of inhaling even the smoke from one cigarette. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin says inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke can damage your DNA, which can lead to cancer.

The next time the president here of some harangue(长篇演说) from the floor of the Congress, he might want to reach for a stick of gum. Sugarless.

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