91.   Several other states already have enacted huge increases in their cigarette taxes or are considering them.

92.   Sen. Edward Kennedy said Democrats may try to raise the cigarette tax next year to help pay for legislation to reduce the number of children without health insurance.

93.   Smokers complained about the steeper cigarette taxes.

94.   She proposed a new statewide property tax, a business tax, a video slot machine tax, and higher booze and cigarette taxes.

95.   Some are raising cigarette taxes and various fees.

96.   Some members of Congress from both parties and many in the public health community have called for an immediate increase in cigarette excise taxes to discourage teenage smoking.

97.   Some of that comes from revenue increases -- including a cigarette tax and money raised by auctioning over airwaves.

98.   That proposal has met fierce opposition among House Republicans, some who oppose the cigarette tax and others who oppose any new tax increases.

99.   The ads, financed by a voter-approved cigarette tax, have been credited with prompting more than a million Californians to quit smoking.

100.   The ads charge Weld is siding with the tobacco industry to block a health-care access bill that is funded by a new cigarette tax.