PRI19980402.2000.0144 NEWS TRANSCRIPT R.J. Reynolds tobacco company denies that it's pulling out of the proposed tobacco settlement. The company statement came after an anti-tobacco lawyer in Washington said tobacco executives had told him that R.J.R. was abandoning the agreement. R.J.R. says it's opposed to a tobacco settlement now before the Senate which is far tougher than a previous agreement made between the companies and the states.