It is not the first anti-smoking bill to clear all Congressional hurdles.

But it will almost certainly take a lot more momentum to drive anti-smoking bills over the political hurdles waiting in the House and the Senate.

The Administration's new plan had been one of the provisions of the failed anti-smoking bill.

Supporters called the anti-smoking bill before the Senate the most important public health measure to reach Congress in years.

The Republican plan is meant as an alternative to the ambitious anti-smoking bill that was shelved by the Senate last week.

In the Philippines, an anti-smoking bill will be debated this summer.

Rondeau introduced the anti-smoking bill in March 2004, and the ban came into effect at the beginning of October.

The obvious example: last year's $40 million television ad campaign to redefine an anti-smoking bill as a "tax and spend" public burden.

Other potential sources, like money that would be generated by the proposed anti-smoking bill, are not yet certain enough to be counted on.

The anti-smoking bill now before the Senate has strayed far afield.