Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Here is an article from Yahoo.News this morning.....

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.
Obama is scheduled to sign the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act during an event Monday in the Rose Garden. The law allows the FDA to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large graphic warnings.
The law won't let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco outright, but the agency will be able to regulate what goes into tobacco products, make public the ingredients and prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children.
Anti-smoking advocates looked forward to the bill after years of attempts to control an industry so fundamental to the U.S. that carved tobacco leaves adorn some parts of the Capitol.
Opponents from tobacco-growing states like top-producing North Carolina argued that the FDA has proved through a series of food safety failures that it's not up to the job. They also said that instead of unrealistically trying to get smokers to quit or to prevent others from starting, lawmakers should ensure that people have other options, like smokeless tobacco.
As president, George W. Bush opposed the legislation and threatened a veto after it passed the House last year. The Obama administration, by contrast, issued a statement declaring strong support for the measure.
Obama has spoken publicly of his own struggles to quit cigarettes.

I'm not sure how much this will help, but I hope it does. Why anyone would ever start smoking in the first place is beyond my understanding. It's like any other addictive drug, why even do it? There is no reason that anyone should smoke cigarettes. It's not something that you pick up and go..."Hmmmm....I would really like to inhale that into my lungs so that I can cough my guts out. I think that would be really fun and I would look cool at the same time! Just ignore my watering eyes and the fact that I smell like a bar." I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who smoke and complain that they smoke because they can't quit. Why did you agree to start in the first place? It's your choice to smoke. You made the decision, you live with it. You are the only one who can decide what you will and will not do to your own body. If you know that you are slowly killing yourself by smoking and you want to quit, then do something about it. It's all up to you and no one else. You can do it if you want to.
So what are you waiting for????