1.   Although company officials have testified under oath that they did not go after underage smokers, several documents suggest the opposite.

2.   Anti-smoking groups have long accused tobacco companies of trying to win underage smokers, since studies have shown that most smokers started when they were teen-agers.

3.   A second group was investigating whether R.J. Reynolds, despite its denials, was aiming its advertising at underage smokers.

4.   According to Morales, the memo is proof that R.J. Reynolds was targeting underage smokers.

5.   But that has not slowed sales to underage smokers.

6.   But underage smokers are there, too.

7.   But, they insisted that none of their current marketing efforts were aimed at underage smokers.

8.   Earlier this year, the FTC filed a suit against R.J. Reynolds, alleging that it targeted underage smokers with its Joe Camel icon.

9.   However, company studies and documents emphasized the critical importance of underage smokers to the future of cigarette makers like R.J. Reynolds.

10.   In other communities, though, law-enforcement officials are going undercover and using surveillance operations to catch underage smokers.