11.   It puts the FDA in charge of determining just what constitutes a safer cigarette.

12.   It said the goal was a safer cigarette.

13.   Others have made substantial efforts to market safer cigarettes.

14.   Previously released documents and testimony by industry scientists have described the problems the tobacco industry had in developing a so-called safer cigarette.

15.   Rates have only fallen since because of a drop in the prevalence of smoking, not because of supposedly safer cigarettes.

16.   Reynolds does not actually call Eclipse or any other product a safer cigarette because there is no accepted way to document such a claim.

17.   Several companies already are marketing what they describe as safer cigarettes.

18.   The aim is a safer cigarette, one less prone to ignite major lawsuits that have pushed the industry to the brink.

19.   The antitrust investigation is focusing on whether cigarette companies illegally conspired to prevent the development of safer cigarettes.

20.   The company said it would not try to market Accord as a safer cigarette, although Nelson contended that the controlled temperature would reduce some harmful effects.