Brazil's President has quit smoking after 50 years

Submitted by Jeff on March 11, 2010 - 1:55pm

AP reports that Luiz Inacia da Silva, known as Lula, has quit smoking after 50 years. He was scared into it by a widely-publicized bout of hypertension that forced him to cancel an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The story also notes that Barak Obama is still smoking.