31.   More meetings are scheduled next week on potential marketing restrictions and on whether the U.S. government will regulate nicotine, the active ingredient of cigarettes, the people said.

32.   Negotiations came to a halt yesterday when B.A.T Industries Plc balked at giving the U.S. government broad power to regulate nicotine in cigarettes.

33.   Never before has the FDA had the authority to regulate nicotine.

34.   Negotiations came to a halt when B.A.T Industries Plc balked at giving the U.S. government broad power to regulate nicotine in cigarettes.

35.   President Clinton also joined the brigade by announcing plans to regulate nicotine as a drug and dramatically restrict advertising aimed at kids.

36.   PresidentClinton on Friday approved unprecedented rules which would allow the FDA to regulate nicotine as a drug and limit sales to teen-agers.

37.   Public-health groups also are pressing for the industry to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate nicotine in cigarettes.

38.   Separately, negotiators began work on the final wording of a settlement proposal under which the federal government could regulate nicotine, people familiar with it said.

39.   Still, he argues that regulating nicotine, the addictive ingredient in cigarettes, would not be very different from regulating any other drug.

40.   The agency has chosen not to try to regulate nicotine, deciding instead to focus on access and advertising, he said.