Big Tobacco Booster.

Reports on the efforts of Mississippi governor Haley Barbour to defeat increased tobacco taxes and greater U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation of the tobacco industry. Value received by the firm of Barbour from its tobacco clients in 1998; Information on a 2000 court decision which allots $20 million annually from the state's $4 billion settlement with the tobacco industry that was challenged by the governor; Views of Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, on the bid of the governor to redirect tobacco-settlement funds.