U.S. Challenges Tobacco Executive Over Addiction
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The nicotine in cigarettes is habit-forming but is not the sole cause of addiction, a tobacco company executive argued during testimony on Tuesday in the government's &#36;280 billion suit against cigarette makers.
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A former tobacco company researcher  told a federal judge on Wednesday he believed he was denied a  promotion in the 1980s over concerns he would testify about the  dangers of smoking in a sick-smoker lawsuit.
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A group of tobacco companies asked a federal judge on Thursday to let them continue marketing "low tar" and "light" cigarettes overseas, two weeks after she banned the practice in the United States.
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TALLAHASSEE - Lawyers for as many as 700,000 ill and dying smokers urged the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to restore a record-shattering $145 billion verdict against the tobacco industry, or at least a portion of it.
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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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Suffering cravings and growing agitated without cigarettes, Kwabena Sarfo of Riverdale called it &quot;tough&quot; to quit smoking.
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Several major tobacco companies are set to go to a U.S. appellate court on Tuesday to argue about whether a $200 billion lawsuit against them by "light" cigarette smokers should proceed as a class action.
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US government on Tuesday begins a major court battle to win $US280 billion ($400 billion) that it says major tobacco companies earned from the public by covering up the dangers of smoking.
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The Food and Drug Administration should be given the power to regulate tobacco products and cigarette taxes should be hiked as part of a government campaign to reduce smoking, an expert panel recommended on Thursday.
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Sick Florida smokers urged the state&#39;s highest court Wednesday to punish the tobacco industry for &quot;fraud and deceit&quot; by restoring a $145 billion US class-action award, the largest ever by an American jury.
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WASHINGTON - Tobacco companies, desperate to maintain their hold on tens of millions of American smokers, worked together for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarettes and to encourage the young to start puffing, government lawyers said Tuesday at the start of a racketeering trial.    Justice Department lawyers pointed to numerous statements by industry executives that created doubt among smokers about whether the habit was harmful and whether they really needed to kick it...
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A US lawsuit, claiming tobacco firms  duped smokers into thinking low tar cigarettes are less harmful, gets the go ahead.
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Tobacco officials are expected to appeal a ruling by an NC judge that halted millions in compensation to growers by cigarette companies as local farmers struggle to make their budgets and plan for next season.
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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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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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A lawyer for the tobacco industry Thursday attempted to paint the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration as a man who seized upon a political environment that was hostile to the tobacco industry in order to advance his
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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.