11.   Many tobacco farmers worry that legislation in Congress and settlements of tobacco lawsuits could adversely affect them.

12.   Morales acknowledges the arrangement is out of the ordinary, but says the tobacco lawsuit also is extraordinary because of the potential damage award.

13.   Morales said that the results, which showed that most Texans rated a tobacco lawsuit as a low priority, were shared with him by a Philip Morris lobbyist.

14.   Morales explains in the two-page letter that the tobacco lawsuit addresses unusual business practices unique to that industry.

15.   Minnesota is scheduled to begin trying its tobacco lawsuit in court next week.

16.   Morales initially claimed that he did not represent local governments in the tobacco lawsuit and that the settlement did not cover them.

17.   One area expected to be debated is limits on attorney fees in tobacco lawsuits.

18.   Rosenblatt also represents another class-action tobacco lawsuit on behalf of flight attendants who claim they became sick from secondhand smoke.

19.   Satcher deflected questions about pending settlements of tobacco industry lawsuits.

20.   Several class-action tobacco lawsuits are working their way through the courts, Jacksonville, Fla., plaintiffs lawyer Woody Wilner said.