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EDITORIAL: Butt out: Finally, the FDA gets broad powers on tobacco 

It has been 45 years since the U.S. surgeon general warned that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer, yet cigarettes today remain the single-largest cause of preventable death in the nation. . . .

Although smokers may be the only people paying the per-pack price for cigarettes, everyone shares the higher medical costs attributable to smoking, and nonsmokers also share the health risks -- 30 percent of employees are not covered by laws that require smoke-free workplaces and 22 million children aged 3 through 11 are exposed regularly to second-hand smoke.

Thanks to Congress and President Barack Obama, who struggles as a former smoker, public health has finally won its long fight against Big Tobacco.

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