1.   Both states plan to recover Medicaid money spent treating victims of tobacco-related lawsuits.

2.   A devout Baptist, he complained that too much public money is spent treating people with AIDS.

3.   A wide majority of the attorneys general are in favor of settling with the tobacco companies as the most effective way to recover Medicaid money spent treating smokers.

4.   Five states have filed lawsuits against the industry in an attempt to recover billions of dollars in public Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses.

5.   Florida is suing the state to recoup Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses under the state-federal health-care plan for the poor.

6.   Four states are suing the cigarette companies, trying to recover public money spent treating people tobacco-related diseases.

7.   Gambling foe C.B. Forgotston objects to public dollars being spent to treat a problem introduced by the state when gambling was legalized a decade ago.

8.   It is also defending suits by five states seeking to recover Medicaid money spent treating smokers among poor people and by a class of smokers addicted to nicotine.

9.   It seeks to recover hundreds of billions of federal health care dollars spent to treat illnesses blamed on smoking.

10.   Moore filed the first suit among U.S. states seeking to recover billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent treating smokers.