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The president speaks of his struggle to give up cigarettes as he OKs legislation intended to end tobacco company practices aimed at luring young people to smoke.
Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2009-06-22
Author: Christi Parsons
Intro: Reporting from Washington -- Invoking his own personal experience as a teenage smoker, President Obama today predicted that a tough new law cracking down on cigarette marketers will help young people make the choice not to take up the habit with which he has struggled for years.
As he signed the measure into law in a Rose Garden ceremony this afternoon, Obama said it would help stem the "constant and insidious barrage of advertising" that draws millions of teenagers every year into a lifelong struggle to quit.
"I know," Obama said. "I was one of those teenagers. I know how difficult it is."
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