U.S. Opens Case Against Tobacco Companies
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U.S. opens $280 billion fraud trial against tobacco industry, alleging the biggest companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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A smoker who accused tobacco companies of jacking up cigarette prices to recoup billions of dollars they pay each year to U.S. states lost a federal court appeal on Wednesday.
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A $200 billion U.S. lawsuit filed by   "light" cigarette smokers gained class action status on Monday,   hammering shares of U.S. tobacco companies.
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A report from the Institute of Medicine urged Congress and the president to give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco.
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U.S. smokers spent as much as $200   billion over more than three decades buying "light" cigarettes   under the false belief they were safer than regular cigarettes,   an attorney in a potential class action lawsuit argued on   Wednesday.
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It has taken five years of pretrial skirmishing, but testimony will finally begin  Tuesday in the government's massive racketeering case against the tobacco industry for allegedly defrauding and misleading the American public for almost 50 years about the health risks of cigarette smoking.
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A group of heavy Marlboro smokers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer, court documents showed on Friday.
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Seven years after being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, anti-smoking advocates are again seeking federal regulation of tobacco, a step they say is needed to deter children from lighting up and to get smokers to quit.
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WASHINGTON - After five years of legal wrangling, the nation's largest cigarette-makers are meeting federal lawyers in court for the trial phase of the government's record $280 billion civil racketeering suit against the tobacco industry.    The government alleges the industry conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine, and illegally targeted children through marketing campaigns...
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WASHINGTON The tobacco industry urged a federal appeals court today to throw out a decision allowing the Justice Department to sue cigarette companies for 280 (b) billion dollars.
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The decision raises the possibility that cases involving light cigarettes will become a major legal threat to the tobacco industry.
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Lawyers for the tobacco industry and the federal government debated Wednesday whether a law drafted to prosecute mobsters can be used to obtain $280 billion from the nation&#39;s cigarette makers.
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A $200 billion U.S. lawsuit filed by  "light" cigarette smokers gained class action status on Monday,  hammering shares of U.S. tobacco companies.
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The US Supreme Court said Friday it would consider whether smokers of cigarettes marketed as "light" could sue the makers for deception on the grounds that they were just as harmful as regular smokes.
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Top tobacco companies urged a federal judge Friday to put her landmark judgment against the industry on hold and let them keep selling "light" and "low tar" cigarettes until they've had a chance to appeal.
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Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the U.S. government's &#36;280 billion racketeering case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
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U.S. appeals court judges considered on Tuesday whether a $200 billion lawsuit against big tobacco companies by smokers of "light" cigarettes should be allowed to go ahead as a class action.