Struggling to kick the butt, Obama signs tobacco law
Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he’s spent his adult life fighting the
habit. Then he signed the nation’s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.
Obama praised the historic legislation, which gives the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate what goes into tobacco products, to make public the ingredients and to prohibit marketing campaigns geared toward children.
But he didn’t say how his own struggle was coming since he moved into the White House. And aides were no more forthcoming . As senator, candidate and now president, Obama has veered between frank and cagey about his personal battle with smoking.
During Monday’s bill signing , Obama focused on how the new law would help keep future generations of children away from the dangerous habit.
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