1.   One, on a CVS letterhead and sent to previous users of a prescription nicotine control product, promoted another being introduced by Glaxo Wellcome Inc.

2.   Pharmaceutical companies contend that their nicotine replacement products are to be used only temporarily, as a therapeutic aid to help cigarette smokers kick the habit.

3.   The FDA said that about one in five smokers trying the new nicotine replacement products was able to quit after a month.

4.   The inmates will not have recourse to any other nicotine products.

5.   They fear this use will only increase if nicotine products proliferate and if more become available over the counter, as the patches and gum already are.

6.   Too, the cigarette-like delivery McNeil is counting on to sell the nicotine product may instead turn off potential consumers, Sanderson said.