1.   Attempts to persuade teen-agers not to smoke and laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to youngsters have failed to curb smoking.

2.   Canadian officials will testify before the Judiciary Committee to describe what happened when their country increased tobacco taxes dramatically to curb smoking.

3.   Hours later, the sweeping plan aimed at curbing youth smoking was dead.

4.   If anti-smoking groups prevail, excise taxes on cigarette would rise sharply and the industry would face costly penalties if efforts to curb youth smoking fell short.

5.   It bars federal spending to promote foreign sales of U.S. cigarettes and forbids American officials to lobby against foreign laws intended to curb smoking.

6.   They could lend weight to efforts by the Clinton administration to clamp down on the tobacco industry and especially to curb smoking by youngsters.

7.   Belgian law bans or curbs smoking in public places, but enforcement is sloppy, violations rampant.