31.   Bershos said cigarette makers keep wholesalers from building up inventory by limiting orders to a certain percentage increase over their average order.

32.   Birmingham sued cigarette makers in May to recoup costs that city officials said were incurred in treating city employees with smoking-linked illnesses.

33.   Black said such practices are widespread among cigarette makers, and include giving retailers incentives for buying a certain amount of cigarettes from the company.

34.   Blumenthal said there will be penalties levied on cigarette makers if teen consumption is not reduced.

35.   -- Slapping civil penalties on cigarette makers if they fail to meet youth smoking reduction goals.

36.   A central predicament facing the president is that any deal that gives cigarette makers even partial immunity from future lawsuits depends on congressional approval.

37.   A closely watched case against RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., the second-largest cigarette maker, went to a jury in Florida today.

38.   A New York state judge said he plans to let fraud lawsuits against the biggest U.S. cigarette makers proceed and grant them class-action status.

39.   A federal lawsuit could prove a far greater financial threat to cigarette makers than all state actions combined, Myers said.

40.   A few states, including Florida and Texas, have used RICO counts in their lawsuits against the cigarette makers.