. . "y little change nationally???thus reducing the number of smokers there by 153,000 between 1993 and 1999.12 States that were part of the ASSIST program, in turn, devoted more resources to tobacco control than did other states except Massachusetts and California, and they showed in aggregate a 7% reduction in tobacco consumption per capita from 1993 to 1996 compared to non-ASSIST states.13 Such a ??" . . .