TOBACCO GAP--Rep. Donald Mottley, R-West Carrolliton, gestures as he speaks with fellow joint committe member Rep. Peter Lawson Jones, D-Cleveland, during a break in the hearings, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000. The lawmakers are trying to hash out a way to spend the state's $10.1 billion share of the national tobacco settlement. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

OHIO TOUGHENS OMVI LAW--Gov. Bob Taft and Rep. Ann Wolmer Benjamin, R-Aurora, listen to comments by Sen. Bruce Johnson, R-Columbus, following Taft's signing of Johnson sponsored Senate Bill 22, which toughens drunk driving penalities, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

SLAMMER FOR THE SLAMMERS--Gov. Bob Taft laughs as he signs into law an anti-slamming bill sponsored by Rep. David Goodman, R-Bexley, left, and Sen. Bruce Johnson, R-Columbus, right, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2000. Taft said that the bill would "send slammers to the slammer." Slamming is when long-distance phone service is transferred without the customers approval. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)