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<![CDATA[Anti-smoking groups hope Obama will be role model]]>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/12/antismoking-groups-hope-t_n_150640.html
WASHINGTON — Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely isn't a new set of lofty expectations on his well-burdened shoulders. But recent attention to Obama's on-and-off smoking habit has pinned a new kind of audacious hope to him. Anti-smoking advocates are counting on Obama as a role model for others trying to kick the habit, showing them _ and himself _ that while it's hard, all things are indeed possible in America.
More pressure?...
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