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Our popular President Barack Obama continues to smoke off camera. A couple weeks ago he signed the Smoking Prevention Act, but he's still puffing away. Isn't it time he walk the talk or is this a don't ask, don't tell issue?
The new law empowers the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee and regulate all tobacco products that are sold in the United States. The legislation encompasses several areas and focuses specifically on the way tobacco products are developed, purchased, marketed or advertised, and labeled. The act is unprecedented and the U.S. government has never had so great a hand in the oversight of the tobacco industry as it will now.
Related stories from top sites:
Ex-smoker Obama still sneaks occasional puff
Jun 22nd, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama may have just made life more difficult for cigarette makers, but he is not above sneaking a smoke every now and again. Obama...
Obama signs cigarette bill
Jun 22nd, 2009 - bizjournals
President Barack Obama signed into law Monday legislation that grants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products. The law, which comes 45 years after the FDA linked tobacco use to heart and respiratory disease...
Obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law
Jun 22nd, 2009 - Yahoo! News
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...
Obama signs tough anti-smoking bill, but quitting the habit ...
Jun 22nd, 2009 - Boston.com
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...
Law gives FDA power to ban candy-flavored and fruit-flavored ...
Jun 22nd, 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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- ObamaCare Quit Smoking CampaignA look into the future of Obama health care. A public service announcement (PSA) found at whitehouse.gov encouraging smokers to quit or face serious consequences.
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- Kevin Arthur Smith Sends...Author of a quit smoking book ( I legally sold Drugs Changing Mindsets for a Smoke-Free You ) Sends a copy to President Barack Obama. Here you see Kevin Arthur Smith describing why this new method is so effective.
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