1.   Federal and state governments add cigarette taxes, big lawsuits and more.

2.   The proposed cigarette tax was abandoned.

3.   Although Gore said he would consider increasing cigarette taxes to pay for health care, he said he would not raise income taxes.

4.   Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to teen-age smoking and to the tobacco companies, but they also dislike cigarette taxes, pollsters say.

5.   And a Missouri business coalition is proposing a cigarette tax election in November that could raise millions of additional dollars for biomedical research.

6.   And a group of U.S. Senators want to raise cigarette taxes.

7.   And assuming that they will, many tax experts and economists say the revenue projections accompanying the new cigarette taxes are disingenuous or erroneous.

8.   And if cigarette taxes serve as disincentives to smokers, this revenue can be expected to decrease in the face of soaring health care costs, he said.

9.   And even by the standards of that group, the cigarette tax is remarkable.

10.   And they said the bill should not allow any of the proceeds of the cigarette tax to help corporations and special interests rather than children and families.