71.   Surveys show that voters overwhelmingly oppose bans on local power to regulate tobacco, but the issue is rarely presented for an isolated vote.

72.   That ruling gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco and to control its marketing.

73.   That is when President Clinton started a campaign to discourage smoking by teen-agers and embraced a Food and Drug Administration proposal to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.

74.   That gives the FDA the power to regulate tobacco and control its marketing, which tobacco companies oppose.

75.   The Association Wednesday called for the government to regulate tobacco as a drug.

76.   The Clinton administration argued that the FDA may regulate tobacco as a drug under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

77.   The decision will have no immediate impact on federal efforts to regulate tobacco because it will be stayed pending appeal.

78.   The Food and Drug Administration has suggested that tobacco be regulated as an addictive drug.

79.   The Food and Drug Administration would regulate tobacco like a drug or medical device, including the amount of nicotine that cigarettes contain.

80.   The decline may have been fueled by the expectation that Clinton will announce Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration will regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.