41.   NIH officials have stressed that even if lung cancer were eventually cured, smokers still are at great risk for heart disease and other health problems.

42.   Now a study suggests that young smokers may be more susceptible to this chemical damage.

43.   Older smokers were also more likely than younger smokers to believe that low-tar cigarettes reduce their health risks.

44.   One problem in preventing teen smoking is that tobacco-related health problems, such as heart disease and cancer, usually appear when smokers are much older.

45.   On average, the smokers were able to cut their intake only in half.

46.   On the one hand, a steep price hike will reduce smoking, especially by the young, but among the addicted there will continue to be smokers.

47.   Other smokers were not so amused.

48.   Pipe smokers are no less erudite.

49.   Rather, one key issue in tobacco-liability cases has been whether smokers were aware of the risks, he said.

50.   Researchers already know that smokers are price-sensitive.