51.   The Food and Drug Administration has suggested that tobacco be regulated as an addictive drug.

52.   The decline may have been fueled by the expectation that Clinton will announce Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration will regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.

53.   The FDA decided recently that nicotine is, indeed, an addictive drug.

54.   The FDA rules declare nicotine an addictive drug.

55.   The idea that many smokers may be medicating themselves with the addictive drug in tobacco is not new.

56.   The interpretation is that the same brain systems are affected by running and by addictive drugs, Brene said.

57.   The president also accepted FDA findings that the nicotine in cigarettes should be declared an addictive drug.

58.   The proposed regulations would be enforced by the Food and Drug Administration, which contends that nicotine in cigarettes is an addictive drug.

59.   The study concluded that nicotine had some of same hallmarks as addictive drugs, said DeNoble, who is now a consultant on smoking-related issues.

60.   The TV, as Orloff describes it, is sort of a family pet and sort of an addictive drug that both numbs and distracts.