21.   Gains in banks, electricity, brewers and tobacco stocks offset losses in drug, foodmakers and insurance stocks.

22.   Gains in tobacco stocks could feed the advance.

23.   Given the latest fracases over tobacco, what are mutual fund managers doing with their big stakes in tobacco stocks?

24.   Gains in tobacco stocks fed the advance.

25.   Harvard treasurer D. Ronald Daniel said that divesting tobacco stocks, particularly Phillip Morris, hurt the university financially.

26.   High-technology stocks continued to hold much of their gains throughout the day, as did beverage, drug and tobacco stocks.

27.   If it loses a large award, tobacco stocks could plunge, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Gary Black wrote today.

28.   If they plan to exclude tobacco stock, they must act before the purchase of all the companies in the index funds are complete.

29.   In March, McCall stopped the pension fund from buying any more tobacco stocks because of the volatility of these shares.

30.   In some circles, there is diminishing demand for tobacco stocks.