WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said Sunday that an Internet ad featuring his campaign manager smoking conveyed a message about letting "people be people" and was not intended to suggest that smoking is cool.
The video went viral this month with at least 1 million clicks on Cain's campaign website. The ad shows Cain's top adviser, Mark Block, taking a deep drag from a cigarette and slowly exhaling into the camera.
"I'm not a smoker. But I don't have a problem if that's his choice," Cain said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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