Mon, Jun 22nd, 2009
WASHINGTON – 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.
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June 22 (Bloomberg) -- When President Barack Obama signedlegislation today empowering the federal government to helpkeep Americans from smoking, he invoked a story of personalstruggle with the deadly habit -- his own.
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama signed into law today the toughest new measures ever on the tobacco industry designed to stop young people from smoking, a powerful habit...
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Jun 13th, 2009 - CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama signed landmark legislation Monday giving the Food and Drug Administration new power to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco.
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is lauding the passage of historic anti-smoking legislation that gives the government sweeping authority to regulate tobacco products...
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