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Obama Picks Antismoking Advocate to Be HHS Deputy

Political Animal found this 1/13/2009 on blogs.wsj.com

Jane Zhang reports on health care. President-elect Barack Obama said he will nominate William Corr , who has long advocated reducing tobacco use, as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Corr is the executive director at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and until September was a registered lobbyist for the antismoking group. Among other things, he lobbied Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration, an HHS agency, the authority to regulate tobacco. A ...