All across the country, cigarette taxes have gone up, and I think that's led to a reduction in smoking. It's a little unclear whether that's caused people to trade down from premium cigarettes or just smoke less. |
I don't think the government will succeed. I think tobacco companies feel betrayed because they did the master settlement agreement with the states and the government keeps coming back for more. |
I think I could work well with people to bring results back to the district. |
They would rather just forget what happened in November [2004]. |
When I talk to the Iraqi leaders, they have told us for months and months that there's two separate types of resistance. There's the national resistance that many of them have sympathy for, and then there's foreign, the religious extremism, that they are against. |