1.   The subsidiary remains a defendant in an action that seeks to recover billions of dollars spent on treating sick smokers.

2.   In these healthconscious times, smokers are often treated like social outcasts.

3.   A wide majority of the attorneys general are in favor of settling with the tobacco companies as the most effective way to recover Medicaid money spent treating smokers.

4.   All states will receive a share of the proceeds of a national settlement based on their population and estimates of state Medicaid costs of treating ill smokers.

5.   Claiming that the companies improperly induced people to smoke, the state is trying to recover the Medicaid costs of treating sick smokers.

6.   For seven months, cigarette companies have been negotiating to settle suits from smokers and states seeking to recoup the costs of treating smokers.

7.   Forty states have also sued the industry to recoup the Medicaid costs of treating former smokers.

8.   In addition to the tough laws, the province decided to sue the tobacco companies for the costs of treating smokers who become ill.

9.   It is also defending suits by five states seeking to recover Medicaid money spent treating smokers among poor people and by a class of smokers addicted to nicotine.

10.   Liggett released the documents as part of its settlement with states suing the industry to recover tax money spent treating sick smokers.