1.   Though cigarettes make a relatively small contribution to overall levels, they do man increased exposure for the individual smoker.

2.   Another alternative for negotiators would be to settle only the lawsuits filed by states and leaving unresolved hundreds of lawsuits filed by individual smokers.

3.   Anti-tobacco attorney Ron Motley said the industry has used a similar defense in cases brought by individual smokers.

4.   Across the country, there have been small uprisings by individual smokers, some of whom liken their struggle to that of other persecuted minorities.

5.   But it continues to face lawsuits from others like individual smokers, trade unions and foreign governments.

6.   But that accord did not cover either cases brought by individual smokers, like the one decided on Monday by the jury in San Francisco.

7.   But that settlement did not foreclose claims by individual smokers, as in the Florida case.

8.   But those settlements did not deal with the potential claims of millions of individual smokers, which may be far more expensive to resolve.

9.   Cigarette companies still are vulnerable to suits by individual smokers and their relatives.

10.   Court decisions in cases brought by individual smokers have been mixed recently.