1.   Company officials have acknowledged that researchers did study the addictive properties of nicotine and how to manipulate the levels of nicotine in cigarettes.

2.   Dole, on the other hand, has questioned whether cigarettes have addictive properties and would be likely to pursue a less activist approach against tobacco.

3.   Meanwhile, drug treatment counselors say dealers have been able to promote the fallacy that snorting or smoking heroin reduces its addictive properties.

4.   That group wants the FDA to have complete regulatory control over cigarettes and nicotine, the addictive property in tobacco products.

5.   The health groups also want the tobacco companies to release all potentially damaging documents they have compiled over the years on research into the addictive properties of nicotine.

6.   Wallace and his team hope to find something to block the receptor that would not have the side-effects or addictive properties of current painkillers.