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James Calvin, president of the New York Association of Convenience Stores, said the impacts on convenience stores would be positive but wouldn’t completely solve the problem of cheap Indian cigarettes.He said anecdotal evidence across the state shows sales increases in some, but not all, non-Indian stores.Burch said attitudes about smoking have changed since he introduced a bill some 25 years ago to restrict smoking in public.It was assigned to the tobacco-friendly House agriculture committee. When Burch came forward to present the bill, he said, “every member of the committee lit up cigarettes.”The senators, including No. 2 Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois, and health officials from St. Louis and Arlington, Texas, made the pleas in separate letters, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. The World Series between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals begins in St. Louis Wednesday night.