1.   A new bill, introduced by Moakley in February, would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to regulate cigarettes.

2.   Cigarette subsidiaries of five major U.S. tobacco companies struck back by filing suit in Greensboro, North Carolina, to stop the FDA from regulating cigarettes.

3.   Federal officials are considering action to regulate cigarettes as drug-delivery devices.

4.   He vowed to fight any attempt at regulating cigarettes and assembled a campaign roster that includes many lawyers, lobbyists and pollsters with tobacco industry ties.

5.   Just before the Democratic National Convention last month, President Clinton announced that cigarettes will be regulated by the FDA.

6.   Not surprisingly, these are the key elements in the FDA proposal to regulate cigarettes, which is now before the president.

7.   Osteen also said that if the latest FDA studies show nicotine to be a drug, that might open the door to regulate cigarettes.

8.   Philip Morris Cos., RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. and smaller companies argue that only Congress -- not the FDA -- has the right to regulate cigarettes.

9.   Scientists at the meeting offered several recommendations to help the FDA decide how to regulate cigarettes.

10.   The agreement also makes it more difficult for the FDA to change the very rules by which it would regulate cigarettes.