1.   Critics of the landmark settlement said that Big Tobacco outflanked anti-tobacco negotiators by requiring that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration jump high legal hurdles to control nicotine.

2.   Control nicotine as the drug it is.

3.   Court arguments by ABC and Philip Morris lawyers indicate the thousands of documents not only detail how Philip Morris controls nicotine levels in its cigarettes, but why.

4.   In return, tobacco companies would win protection from future lawsuits and restrictions on how strictly the government could control nicotine.