1.   The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.

2.   RECORD profits from international cigarette sales and a dramatic recovery at Eagle Star insurance helped BAT Industries surge ahead in the third quarter.

3.   And cigarette sales boomed throughout the military during World War II, when nearly a third of all tobacco sales went to the US armed forces.

4.   And on Friday he announced final approval of federal rules cracking down on cigarette sales to minors.

5.   Because Congress bought the twisted argument that the government ought to compensate them for falling cigarette sales.

6.   -- Whether financial assistance would be provided to tobacco growers whose business might be hurt by a decline in cigarette sales.

7.   A federal court last month allowed the FDA to regulate cigarette sales but not advertising.

8.   A federal suit would drive up cigarette prices and drive down cigarette sales, decreasing the amount states collect in sales and excise taxes.

9.   A senior Treasury Department official accused the tobacco industry Thursday of participating in illegal cigarette sales, and called for government action to stop the black-market trade.

10.   CHINA THWARTS TOBACCO COMPANIES As cigarette sales threaten to decline precipitously in the United States, American tobacco companies are counting on China as a land of growth.