TOUGH REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT LOOMS FOR AMERICAN TOBACCO SECTOR
February 1st, 2009
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
PRESIDENT Barack Obama, an intermittent smoker, has been very coy about the status of his nicotine habit, which he has tried to kick several times. So, the question of whether the no-smoking rule at the White House will outlast the Obama presidency, or even if it should, has received no small amount of attention from journalists and in Washington circles.
While the future of the smoking policy on White House grounds remains uncertain, there is less doubt about the larger, national tobacco policy currently being developed in the US federal ...
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