Expressing a hope that America’s teens will not be hooked as he was, President Obama just signed into law a bill granting the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new authority to regulate tobacco.
The president, shown here at the signing ceremony with lawmakers and teens representing the generation they’re all trying to save, said he’s trying to reduce the estimated 1,000 teenagers a day who become smokers.
“I was one of these teenagers. And so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it’s been with you for a long time,” said Obama, who has been public about his own struggles to quit smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
