Item: Anti-smoking groups hope Obama will be role model/Jocelyn Noveck, AP

More Info: Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely isn't a new set of lofty expectations on his well-burdened shoulders. But recent attention to Obama's on-and-off smoking habit has pinned a new kind of audacious hope to him. Anti-smoking advocates are counting on Obama as a role model for others trying to kick the habit, showing them - and himself - that while it's hard, all things are indeed possible in America.

Question: Does Barack Obama's nicotine addiction bother you?

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