It's a painful defeat for the tobacco industry in the U.S.

Law - Tobacco industry - United States
Manufacturers of cigarettes can sell their products will no longer be as "light", also in the future special flavor additives are forbidden, aimed primarily at young smokers.

These and other measures provides for a similar law, which passed the Senate in Washington with a large majority. U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the text said: "Over a decade, both parties have used the fact that the tobacco industry markets their products are not children and points out the dangers of smoking. And after over a decade, this law is a success of this work. "Obama, who admits to occasionally taking up smoking, now wants to sign the law. An estimated 20 percent of the approximately 300 million Americans smoke, die annually in the U.S., around 400,000 people from the consequences.