1.   First, it argues that Congress has Declined repeatedly to give the FDA authority to regulate tobacco.

2.   And the Food and Drug Administration has said it can regulate tobacco as a drug but has yet to do so.

3.   Any tobacco deal should not immunize the industry from lawsuits or bar the government from regulating tobacco.

4.   As Democrats have become willing in recent years to regulate tobacco, the GOP has let itself become a virtual subsidiary of the industry.

5.   As Kennedy spoke, a U.S. federal judge ruled that the FDA has the power to regulate tobacco because nicotine qualifies as a drug.

6.   Barbour will represent his remaining tobacco clients in resisting efforts to have tobacco regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

7.   -- The federal government should be given the power to regulate tobacco.

8.   A federal appeals court had rejected the restrictions on the grounds that Congress had not given the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco.

9.   A ruling by a federal judge Friday which gave the Food and Drug Administration the clearance to regulate tobacco has pushed nicotine regulation back into the talks.

10.   A ruling by a federal judge Friday which gave the Food and Drug Administration the clearance to regulate tobacco pushed UYnicotine regulation back into the talks, Moore said.