31.   Passing taxes that drive up cigarette prices.

32.   Proposals to raise and lower the amount by which cigarette prices would be driven up were handily rejected.

33.   Public health experts have long argued that raising cigarette prices is absolutely necessary to curb teen-age smoking.

34.   Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., argued that increasing cigarette prices as quickly as possible would be the best way to discourage teenagers from beginning to smoke.

35.   Several other committee members also called for much higher cigarette prices -- a proposal that has been categorically rejected by the tobacco companies.

36.   Smokers, the supposed victims of Big Tobacco, are picking up the tab through higher cigarette prices.

37.   Splintered into countless factions, the Senate began debate Monday night on legislation meant to discourage youth smoking by raising cigarette prices.

38.   Steven Duchesne, an industry spokesman, said tobacco companies thought that high cigarette prices would encourage those in the black market to target teen-agers.

39.   TAX ON CIGARETTES TO BE PROPOSED Another increase in cigarette prices is being proposed.

40.   The agency originally sought a court order to block the merger, saying it could damage competition and raise cigarette prices.