91.   For cigarette makers, the rapidly-accelerating rate of lawsuit filing is also producing a high-speed game of legal Russian Roulette.

92.   For cigarette makers, the problem is not only a legislative one but a legal one.

93.   For decades, cigarette makers have refused to admit any connection between their product and cancer, even in the face of mounting medical evidence and public hostility.

94.   For Bliley, though, analysts say the issue gives the Virginia Republican a chance to distance himself from the cigarette makers he so long has protected.

95.   For more than a decade, anti-tobacco groups have tried to force cigarette makers to lower nicotine levels because of its alleged addictive nature.

96.   For several years, Justice Department officials had considered the possibility of suing cigarette makers to recoup federal health care funds.

97.   For the cigarette makers, always on the alert for efficient ways to hook new smokers, especially young ones, it was a dandy idea.

98.   For example, there is a belief that cigarette makers are targeting blacks.

99.   Former employees of another cigarette maker, Philip Morris, have told the government their company hooked smokers by spiking cigarettes with more nicotine.

100.   For much of the past decade, cigarette makers have steadily increased their campaign contributions to counter negative public opinion and to battle against unfriendly legislative initiatives.