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Anti-smoking groups laud Obama's efforts to kick the butt.


Byline: ANI

Washington, March 2 (ANI): Anti-smoking groups have praised US President Barack Obama for his efforts to quit the habit - though he continues to light the puff (algorithm) puff - To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* "PUFF", but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder.

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Matthew Myers Matthew Myers was a first class cricketer who played 21 games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1876 and 1878. He also played for North of England (1877) and the Players of the North (1877-1878) in first class games and for Yorkshire in non first class matches. , president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said the US president's cigarette struggles sent out a message to young people about the need to kick the deadly habit.

"The difficulty he has quitting should send a message to our nation's youth just how tough an addiction it can be once you start," csmonitor.com quoted Myers as saying.

John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and a law professor at George Washington University, also said: "Should the president be able to quit, we and every antitobacco organization will hold him up as a shining example that even with all the stress he is under, it can be done.

But he added: "Right now, he's not a poster boy for showing that people can quit." (ANI)

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