A poster addict for tobacco law

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WASHINGTON - It's all right to be just a bit defensive when you're the addict in chief.

"You just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking, as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," President Obama snapped when a reporter justifiably asked him at a news conference how he's doing on kicking his cigarette habit - and whether the landmark legislation he signed requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the tobacco industry would help.

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A poster addict for tobacco law

Recovering his equanimity, the president explained that he's "95 percent cured" from smoking, doesn't smoke in front of his family and doesn't light up every day. In short, he is a closet smoker - just like m...

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