11.  Since that hearing, antismoking groups in the city have squared off in a dispute with several of their counterparts elsewhere.

12.  Some antismoking groups attacked the new promotions as self-serving.

13.  Some congressmen and antismoking groups said the proposal lets cigarette makers off too easily at a time when political heat has made the industry vulnerable in bargaining.

14.  The American Lung Association, smaller antismoking groups, and corporate watchdogs including Ralph Nader, meanwhile, oppose the accord.

15.  The division has been under heavy pressure from health advocacy groups and antismoking groups to include the smoking cessation drugs in its MassHealth program, which administers Medicaid.

16.  The Supreme Court decision, issued Thursday, stunned government health officials and caught antismoking groups off guard.

17.  There are also bitter splits between antismoking groups, whose views will count heavily in any legislation passed.

18.  Those accords do not extend outside the United States, and antismoking groups have maintained that producers will operate under different rules abroad.

19.  Two antismoking groups will seek an FDA ban of Eclipse, the low-smoke cigarette produced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.