31.   Most analysts doubt that these provisions will have any measurable effect on smoking rates.

32.   New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that teen smoking rates are soaring.

33.   None of this, however, has stopped the smoking rate in Saudi Arabia from being among the highest anywhere.

34.   Opponents say the tax is unfair, because with higher smoking rates, the poor are getting hit the hardest.

35.   Physicians, who have much lower-than-average smoking rates, were excluded from the study.

36.   Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Massachusetts, said another omission was aid to foreign countries dealing with high smoking rates.

37.   Satcher predicted that if all states had aggressive anti-smoking programs like those in California and Massachusetts, smoking rates could be halved in a decade.

38.   Sidney attributed much of that discrepancy to higher smoking rates among black men.

39.   Smoking rates rose.

40.   Teen-age smoking rates are still lower than they were three decades ago.