He should be the national poster child for the Tobacco Institute.

By 1992, taxes had fallen to less than 26 percent of the price, according to the Tobacco Institute.

To the outside world, the Tobacco Institute does nothing but promote smoking.

At a party five years later, a friend mentioned that the Tobacco Institute was looking for help in its public affairs department.

The Tobacco Institute, the industry's leading trade group, had no comment on the decision.

Records show that the committee collected $2,664,620 in its first three months; all but $20 came from the Tobacco Institute.

The Tobacco Institute published a large number of lengthy "white papers".

Allen was president of the Tobacco Institute from 1960 to 1966.

Since 1983, the Tobacco Institute says, the number of smokers has dropped 2 to 3 percent a year.

Last week retail cigarette sales were off from 30 to 50 percent, according to the Tobacco Institute.