WASHINGTON – It’s all right to be just a bit defensive when you’re the addict in chief.

“You just think it’s neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law,” President Obama snapped when a reporter justifiably asked him at a news conference how he’s doing on kicking his cigarette habit – and whether the landmark legislation he signed requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the tobacco industry would help.

Recovering his equanimity, the president explained that he’s “95 percent cured” from smoking, doesn’t smoke in front of h...

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