21.   If cigarette prices rise, then fewer people can afford a smoking habit.

22.   In the place of industry fines, cigarette prices would instead rise to reflect every additional percentage point short of the targets.

23.   In their evaluation last month, tobacco companies also charged that the original FTC analysis understated the likely increase in cigarette prices induced by the settlement.

24.   Kerry argued the bill was not a tax increase because the people who would pay higher cigarette prices would do so voluntarily.

25.   Major disputes are likely to continue to erupt over such issues as how much cigarette prices should be raised to deter youth smoking.

26.   Most of the rise, though, came from one-time increases in items like cigarette prices and rent, rather than broad-based price increases.

27.   Most large tobacco companies would raise cigarette prices to recover their share of a settlement payment, he said.

28.   Opponents of smoking and some economists have argued that a sharp, significant increase in cigarette prices could provide the most effective way to reduce teen-age smoking.

29.   Other joint industry action on cigarette prices, however, should continue to be subject to price-fixing laws, Pitofsky said.

30.   Philip Morris will benefit from higher cigarette prices.