Are you a smoker?

According to news reports published this week, so is President Barack Obama.

He, like so many others, started smoking as a teenager.

But that hasn’t stopped him introducing tough new laws to regulate the huge American tobacco industry.

The new law will see strict controls on cigarette marketing and new rules to monitor the products added to tobacco.

Stafford Sanders from the health group Ash Australia says the US move is historic.

He spoke to 2SER’s, Nastasia Campanella.