1.   And unless its use can be shown to be safe -- a virtual impossibility -- Dr. Kessler would be compelled by federal law to ban nicotine.

2.   After that, nicotine could be banned, if certain scientific and legal tests were met.

3.   It also gives the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the companies and ban nicotine, and puts sharp restrictions on advertising.

4.   It also gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco companies and ban nicotine, and puts sharp restrictions on advertising.

5.   The agreement, which needs congressional approval, would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the companies and ban nicotine.

6.   Though both sides have agreed on broad issues on the regulation of nicotine, B.A.T is opposed to allowing either the FDA or Congress to ban nicotine.

7.   A spokesman for the Tobacco Institute said he had never heard of a state trying to ban nicotine from tobacco products.