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Barack Obama Smoking
Status: Fake (composite)
Technique of Fakery: Composite Images.
Date and Time Period: Circulating online since early 2008; (2005-Present)
Themes: Politics
Barack Obama has admitted to being a smoker, though before he launched his presidential campaign he resolved to quit the habit. (By his own admission, he has had a few lapses.) Nevertheless, there are hardly any photos of him smoking, largely because his campaign makes great efforts to stop such photos getting out, fearing negative public reaction.

In early 2008 the top photo began circulating online, showing Obama with a cigarette in his mouth. It is not real. The original photo (bottom) was taken by Kwame Ross on Aug. 3, 2004 while then-State Sen. Obama met with constituents at the University of Illinois while campaigning to become a U.S. Senator.

An unknown hoaxer digitally added the cigarette into the photo.
References:
Campus Visit. News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


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