For years, these were the competing forces in the tobacco wars.
It was a day of good news, bad news, and no news for combatants in the tobacco wars.
The paint companies said he was fresh from making a killing in the tobacco wars - and on the hunt for his next corporate victim.
The crowded courtroom became, for an intense hour, the current battleground in the tobacco wars that have swept through Congress and presidential politics.
What role did Parrish play in the tobacco wars?
Eventually, his role in the tobacco wars changed: he helped bring them to an end.
But recently the 101 Club has become the latest front in the tobacco wars.
In America's tobacco wars, they said, they are at least blameless.
The plan is not the first seeking peace in the tobacco wars through legislation.
The controls and limitations emerging from the tobacco war are likely to have an equally chilling impact on a wide variety of American businesses.