21.   The lawsuit, which was filed in September, also alleges that tobacco companies suppressed efforts to develop safer cigarettes and hid information on cigarette ingredients from consumers.

22.   A small Virginia company that claims to have developed a safer cigarette is challenging the constitutionality of the national tobacco settlement.

23.   Davies said Philip Morris would share the findings of research into safer cigarettes with WHO on Friday.

24.   Defense lawyers also insisted that the companies never wavered in trying to design a safer cigarette, spending billions on research.

25.   He also said there was no evidence that Whiteley would have smoked a safer cigarette if one had been available.

26.   He refused to say the curing process would produce a safer cigarette.

27.   Industry officials, in search of safer cigarettes, want the growers to invest millions of dollars in curing-barn modifications.

28.   R.J. Reynolds attorney Jeff Furr also said tobacco companies are hoping to make a safer cigarette.

29.   Star claims it has been involuntarily subjected to the national agreement, limiting its ability to develop and market a safer cigarette.

30.   The American Cancer Society said it wanted the government to substantiate claims that Eclipse is a safer cigarette.