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Monday, January 19, 2009

Obama on front lines in battle to stop smoking

Experts say his efforts to quit illustrate how difficult it is.

By Victoria Stagg Elliott, AMNews staff. Posted Jan. 19, 2009.


Physicians and other smoking-cessation advocates have found a high-profile illustration of the challenges of quitting tobacco: President-elect Barack Obama.

"His honesty should help a lot of people, because it's just not that easy to quit smoking," said Anthony Atkins, MD, a family physician and director of minority health and community outreach for the Lima Community Health Center in Lima, Ohio./.../

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