1.   It could recruit defectors from the cigarette industry, as it did during the investigation that prompted it to classify nicotine as a drug.

2.   The administration also classified nicotine as a drug, giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to enact more restrictions on cigarette ads.

3.   The administration also classified nicotine as a drug, giving the FDA authority to enact more restrictions on cigarette ads.

4.   The case was put on hold for a year, until the FDA classified nicotine as a drug and issued restrictions on tobacco advertising and promotions.

5.   The issue of whether nicotine should be classified as a drug is at the center of federal efforts to exert some regulatory control over tobacco companies.

6.   The regulations, which classified the nicotine in tobacco as a drug, are expected to take effect next year.

7.   The regulations, which classified the nicotine in tobacco as a drug, impose restrictions on promotions and advertising that are to go into effect next year.

8.   Until last Friday, the notion that the government might quickly win its battle to classify nicotine as a drug seemed far-fetched, even to anti-smoking advocates.

9.   Dzulkifli suggests that nicotine be classified as a drug, as what the US Food and Drug Administration has done.

10.   Anti-tobacco groups are pushing to outlaw cigarettes by getting nicotine classified as an addictive drug, but this new form of prohibition could be just a pipe dream.