1.   Also at the hearings, Spears testified that tobacco companies did not manipulate nicotine in cigarettes.

2.   Farone states that cigarette companies actively try to manipulate nicotine and tar levels to minimize health hazards of the products while maintaining the delivery of nicotine.

3.   If they prove this stuff about manipulating the nicotine, it may put them out of business.

4.   If the big tobacco companies were manipulating nicotine like a drug, then they were in the drug delivery business and subject to regulation, the agency argued.

5.   It seems that their own documents prove they knew about the role of nicotine and the role of physiological need versus habit, and that they deliberately manipulated nicotine.

6.   Nearly four years ago, other executives from the same companies denied, under oath, that nicotine was addictive or that they had manipulated nicotine levels in cigarettes.

7.   Philip Morris denies that it manipulated the nicotine in any commercially marketed cigarettes.

8.   ABC refused to apologize for also reporting that tobacco companies use other methods to manipulate the nicotine in cigarettes in order to keep people smoking.

9.   Critics told Congress last fall that makers of smokeless tobacco manipulate the nicotine in their products to hook young users.

10.   His agency had uncovered proof tobacco companies manipulated nicotine to hook smokers and targeted minors to take up the habit.