1.   -- The companies will be allowed to use cigarette ingredients currently in the product for another five years.

2.   A federal judge is poised to rule on a tobacco industry bid to block state public health hearings on a plan to force disclosure of all cigarette ingredients.

3.   Kozlowski presented the survey at the second day of Public Health Commission hearings on proposed regulations requiring tobacco companies to disclose cigarette ingredients.

4.   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.

5.   The settlement would allow current cigarette ingredients to remain in the product for five years after the law is enacted, according to the summary document.