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It’s been a family secret for a while, but the first lady let it out of the bag: The President has finally kicked the habit. It’s been almost a year, she told reporters, since he’s had a cigarette.

We knew he’d been working on it. He’d told us that. And, in December, Robert Gibbs told us White House reporters he hadn’t seen the president smoke in at least nine months. 

But this is the first time we’ve heard for sure that he’s quit for good â€" and, so far, is keeping the pledge. Good for him.

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