For them -- Big Tobacco -- this trial was about money. For us, it was about people's lives.... We still feel they're arrogant.

This is a verdict in favor of no one and it will not have any practical impact on Philip Morris and its employees,

It was just racing. I didn't see him up beside of me. They said he was looking but I didn't see him up to the door, so I just tried to hold the bottom and evidently he was there and we got together and he did an awful good job of not wrecking me.

The award of $775 million to the attorneys representing Massachusetts is excessive,

This is an inappropriate effort by these organizations to improperly inject themselves into a lawsuit to which they are not parties, ... We will be responding in detail to this brief in a future filing.

adversely affect its operating income and cash flows for the fourth quarter and year 1998, and will likely materially adversely affect the cash flows and operating income of the company in future years.

There's probably not a country in the world that can withstand a verdict this size.

did not invest the same amount of effort as earlier states.

We could promote the 'care and feeding' of journalists to develop a network sympathetic to Philip Morris, ... Using this approach in the U.S. we have been able to get favorable articles/commentaries in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal , National Review and reach millions of the public through the numerous syndicated columnists that are in our network.

We will undoubtedly spend the coming weeks and months appealing the seemingly endless list of errors... in the case,