61.   This may mean that Chinese-Americans generally need fewer cigarettes to maintain their nicotine levels.

62.   Those regulations do not include altering of nicotine levels in cigarettes.

63.   Tobacco companies are being accused of manipulating nicotine levels to promote addiction.

64.   Under Food and Drug Administration regulations, deliberate changes in nicotine levels would leave cigarettes subject to regulation.

65.   Under the settlement plan, the FDA also would be prevented from requiring tobacco companies to lower nicotine levels without a potentially lengthy legal process.

66.   When consumers in test markets said a product lacked impact, the company would respond by increasing the nicotine level, Farone said.

67.   When Philip Morris was planning a new menthol cigarette, the researchers worked on several studies to determine the nicotine level they wanted in the cigarette.

68.   Yet another problem rests with a division among public health advocates over whether reducing nicotine levels will wean hard-core smokers from the habit in the first place.

69.   Pending lawsuits accuse the industry of manipulating nicotine levels and demand that it pay the health bills of patients afflicted by diseases blamed on tobacco smoke.

70.   As a result, she said, the effect on the brain is to command the repeat of actions that keep up nicotine levels within the bloodstream.