1.   Higher cigarette prices do not seem to discourage people from smoking.

2.   Analysts predicted Congress will insist on pushing the cost of cigarettes higher and will want to do it right away, rather than phasing it in over several years.

3.   Another thorny matter involves how to spend money raised by higher cigarette taxes.

4.   Anti-smoking advocates want that provision, arguing that higher cigarette prices would discourage teens from smoking.

5.   A spokesman said that Bradley had a strong anti-smoking record and championed higher cigarette taxes.

6.   But so far, Congress has envisioned a higher cigarette tax only as part of a controversial legal settlement that would give tobacco companies immunity from certain lawsuits.

7.   Democrats have opposed the higher cigarette tax, instead favoring a rollback in business tax cuts.

8.   Despite the fact that higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking, Ashcroft railed against them for three hours on the Senate floor.

9.   Growers fear that higher cigarette prices will reduce smoking and thus cut demand for their crop.

10.   Higher cigarette taxes are not.