11.   The companies also agreed to issue new warning labels, restrict product marketing and allow federal officials to regulate cigarettes.

12.   The FDA is expected to announce its finding early next year and to outline ways to regulate cigarettes if it determines that nicotine is addictive.

13.   The FDA, which wants to regulate cigarettes as drug delivery devices, declined comment.

14.   The focus of the industry case is the fact that Congress has refused to go along with past efforts to give the FDA the explicit authority to regulate cigarettes.

15.   The Food and Drug Administration, as it tries to determine if cigarettes should be regulated, has requested many of the documents from the company.

16.   The Food and Drug Administration, which had begun its own investigation, released its finding earlier this month that cigarettes should be regulated as a drug.

17.   The government is in a legal battle with the tobacco industry over its plan to regulate cigarettes.

18.   The judge said the Food and Drug Administration can regulate cigarettes.

19.   The projects have included sponsoring a debate in schools about regulating cigarettes and pressing for a smoke-free dining day at restaurants in Jacksonville.

20.   The research has fueled efforts by the federal Food and Drug Administration to declare nicotine a drug and attempt to regulate cigarettes as a drug-delivery device.