1.   Attorneys for the long-time smoker argued that the company should have made a safer cigarette and was negligent in its product design.

2.   Attorneys for the long-time smoker argued the company should have made a safer cigarette and was negligent in its product design.

3.   Attorneys for the long-time smoker argued that RJR should have made a safer cigarette and was negligent in its product design.

4.   A federal effort that poured millions of dollars into the development of a safer cigarette failed.

5.   According to press reports, he has said that his former employer altered documents about the development of safer cigarettes.

6.   But Hough, the state attorney, said the industry has never mounted a strong marketing campaign for a safer cigarette.

7.   He also claimed the company suppressed scientific research into developing safer cigarettes.

8.   He hopes to get into the safer cigarette business himself.

9.   Hence they lack incentives to invest in making a safer cigarette that persuades addicts to switch to their brands.

10.   I interpret Eclipse as an effort by the tobacco industry to have a safer cigarette.