"When you smoke indoors, it hurts everybody, " the 59-year-old says, leaning against an iron fence outside his building.

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We would have dinner and drinks at his massive apartment overlooking Dupont Circle or lunch at Bistro du Coin, back when you could still smoke there.

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When the smoke clears, you want to be long in these solid names because there could be a wild rally ahead.

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There is plenty of evidence that "second-hand" smoke - breathed when you are in the same room as someone smoking - can be harmful, particularly to children, and some parents adopt a strategy of never smoking in their child's presence.

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When I had my youngest children, ages 5 and 8 now, you couldn't smoke in the hospital.

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