Cain Smoking

Herman Cain insisted Sunday that his now-viral campaign video featuring chief of staff Mark Block dragging on a cigarette was not meant to send a message that smoking is cool. "One of the themes within this campaign is let Herman be Herman," Cain said. "Mark Block is a smoker and we say let Mark be Mark. Let people be people." "Young people of America, all people, do not smoke. It is hazardous and it's dangerous to your health. Don't smoke," Cain said. At Schieffer's behest he added: "It is not a cool thing to do." Cain said he won't take down the video from his campaign's YouTube channel, noting that even if he did it would still be available elsewhere on the InternetThe candidate estimated "about 30%" of the reaction to the ad was similar to Schieffer's (the guy questioning him on it) objections.