"Light" smokers seek billions in damages
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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 smokes, an   attorney in a potential class action lawsuit argued on   Wednesday.
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A legal challenge to the government's smoking ban in England will be launched at the High Court.
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Florida Supreme Court judges on Wednesday questioned attorneys for smokers and cigarette companies on whether a case involving thousands of smokers can properly be tried as a class action.
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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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A multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought by the government against major tobacco firms is to open in Nigeria.
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A group of advocates for medical marijuana sued two federal health agencies over the assertion that smoking it has no medical benefit.
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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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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 yesterday at the start of a racketeering trial.
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A lawsuit accusing tobacco companies of   defrauding smokers into thinking "light" cigarettes were safer   than regular brands can proceed as a class action, a federal   judge in New York ruled on Monday.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  New Jersey and 11 other states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.
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Many companies are seeking to reduce their medical bills by paying for programs to help employees stop smoking.
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A $10.1 billion award to smokers of &quot;light&quot; cigarettes by an Illinois judge was based only on speculation and should be thrown out, a lawyer for Philip Morris USA told the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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The government&#39;s effort to prove that tobacco companies used fraud and deception for decades to keep Americans smoking moved Wednesday into a federal appeals court
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Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the US government&#39;s $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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A tobacco industry lawyer sought to  fend off accusations that cigarette makers waged a deceptive  campaign to blunt concerns over secondhand smoke as he  testified on Wednesday in the government's $280 billion suit  against the industry.
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Two major cigarette makers on Wednesday said they plan to appeal a Louisiana court ruling ordering them to fund a program to help people quit smoking, although the decision reduced the amount of damages they faced.
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WASHINGTON - The nation's biggest tobacco companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal lawyer alleged Tuesday at the start of a civil racketeering trial in which the government seeks a record $280 billion from the industry.    In his opening statement, Justice Department attorney Frank Marine said starting in the 1960s the industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars on organizations set up to counter the growing body of scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer...