Hope equals change; per the AP:
Anti-smoking groups hope Obama will be role model
WASHINGTON ? 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.
Incidentally, this article is written by one Jocelyn Noveck, whose first sentence suggests she has her own unhealthy addiction that for her health and profession she should quit cold turkey, or at the very least take a cold shower.
