Former Speaker–and unabashed smoker–John Boehner (R-OH) was elected to the board of directors of tobacco company Reynolds American, Inc., according to a press release from the company on Wednesday.
Boehner will also serve on the board’s corporate governance, nominating and sustainability committee, according to the release.
This is the first corporate position Boehner has accepted since resigning from the speakership and leaving Capitol Hill last October. He has remained mostly out of public view although he spent late July and August traveling cross-country, fundraising for House Republican races on his bus Freedom One.
Boehner is a longtime smoker whose habit sometimes caused ire among his Republican colleagues, as when Paul Ryan said he hated getting Boehner’s cigarette smoke on his clothes.
Reynolds American Inc. also tapped Jean-Marc Levy, executive-in-residence at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the board.
