Smoking is spread far and wide. This obsessive habit attracts and swallows everyone who is curious about it. And it is very difficult then to find the way out of it. Having started once, you cannot leave it off.

Many people are under the reign of this general pestilence. The representatives of the governmental body are not exception. An obvious case represents the president of the United States of America, Barrack Obama, who already smokes more than 20 years. However, he regrets the first cigarette which he lighted up being a teenager. He confessed that notwithstanding his addiction to smoking, he always struggled with this epidemic.

Obama's habit of smoking triggered many obstacles for him during his 2008 presidential election and campaign. He heard lots of unpleasant statements on the part of numerous anti-smoking groups, which were displeased with his vicious habit and spoke on the subject that presidential nominee who smokes, no matter how often he puffs, daily or even occasionally, set bad example for his nation.

“I have never been a heavy smoker. I quit periodically smoking during the last several years”, - declared the head of the USA. Moreover, I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that no matter what stressful would be the pre-election campaign, I won’t loose my temper and won’t take a cigarette”, -added Obama.

Being senator, he promised his spouse, Michelle Obama, that as soon as he becomes the president he will give up smoking. Still it is complicated enough for chain smoker to come off smoking habit. But he doesn’t give up and continues his permanent struggle with himself and his terrible habit. Nowadays, he is often seen chewing nicotine gum in order to resist smoking.

Having signed the nation's toughest anti-smoking law in order to prevent the further smoking spreading among teenagers, he stressed that about 90% of people start smoking, having reached lawful age, which allows them to purchase tobacco products without problem. To such people he attached himself too. And this is very brave action.

American president blamed the tobacco industry for targeting young people. He emphasized that tobacco enterprises think just over their own benefits, and they do not ponder over the fact that their smoking products kill people under the age of 18 who do not acknowledge the sorrowful consequences of smoking habit and continue to take cigarettes one after another. "I know I was one of these teenagers, and so I realize how difficult it can be to drop this habit when it's been with you for a long time," – stated the president.

Boston.com quotes Obama as saying: "More than 400,000 Americans now decease of tobacco-related diseases yearly, making it the leading reason of preventable death in the United States.”

Obama's struggle with smoking still continues and who knows maybe soon he will remember this as a nightmare. Time will show!

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