1.   -- Cigarettes deliver more nicotine to the brain faster than any other method ever invented, including intravenous injection.

2.   Cigarettes, by contrast, deliver nicotine in small, short-lived jolts.

3.   Nicotine was such a substance, the FDA said, and cigarettes were devices for delivering nicotine.

4.   Public health officials say products such as Eclipse probably deliver nicotine in a fashion somewhere in between those extremes.

5.   Such therapy could take the form of a so-called safe cigarette that delivers nicotine without the lethal byproducts of burning tobacco.

6.   The agency would use its authority to regulate medical devices to act against the cigarettes and smokeless tobacco that deliver nicotine to users.

7.   The anti-smoking groups contend that the new tobacco product is not really a cigarette but a drug delivery device because it delivers nicotine and does not burn tobacco.

8.   The companies also are required to put their cigarettes through a machine smoking test that determines how much nicotine they deliver under realistic smoking conditions.

9.   The key factor is how nicotine is delivered to the body, and how it is absorbed.

10.   Lawyers for the healthy smokers contend the tobacco industry designed a defective product solely to deliver nicotine, with no regard for the health risks to their customers.