More often, Glendening said he used a mix of other public appearances and private appeals to lawmakers to garner support for his bills. To underscore the need to raise the state’s tobacco tax to pay for prescription drug coverage for children from low-income families, for example, Glendening said he did a string of public appearances holding up a bottle of amoxicillin and talking about how kids didn’t always get the medicine they needed. He urged Marylanders to call legislative leaders about the issue.