Obama says he quit smoking - sort of

Barack Obama was smoking on the sly all during his campaign for the White House.


Now he said he will not be lighting up in the smoke-free White House but he failed to give a straight answer when asked by Tom Brokaw on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking.

In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, the president-elect has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.

The White House no-smoking rule was imposed by former First Lady Hillary Clinton, now Mr. Obama's nominee for secretary of state.

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