1.   Armed with stolen documents detailing how addictive nicotine is, the smokers charged cigarette companies with not warning customers that smoking was addictive.

2.   Even so, that admission leaves the companies vulnerable to the grave charge that they control the dose of addictive nicotine in cigarettes to keep their customers hooked.

3.   For example, the most debated part of the deal is the loss of power by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate addictive nicotine in cigarettes.

4.   The regulations are aimed at enabling consumers to avoid cigarettes with additives that may be toxic when they are smoked or to lessen their exposure to addictive nicotine.

5.   New Zealanders smoke cigarettes with about twice the level of addictive nicotine as cigarettes sold in the United States and Canada, a Public Health report disclosed Tuesday.

6.   Some people who switched to light cigarettes, thinking they were less harmful, smoked more to preserve their intake of addictive nicotine, the report said.