It maybe that he failed. Failing isn't automatically lying. This thing, where people say, as if in some absolute sense, that this or that is the case, is silly.Atreyu wrote:If a person says he will do something tomorrow, and does not do it, then he lied. A lie is a lie whether or not it was conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional.Razblo wrote: And "evasion" is not lying, and the apparently "evasive" smoking person A may have merely been publicly expressing their hope that they would quit. If so this is not lying. It is merely an internal and personal struggle.
And unconscious or unintentional lying is much worse than intentionally and consciously lying. If a man is going to lie, he should be fully aware he's lying, and he should know why he's lying. Intentionally lying to achieve an aim is preferable to habitually lying out of habit.
He may have lied or he may not have lied. The report in the OP is an insufficient one for determining some absolute fact, as you seem to have done.