U.S. "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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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 class-action award, the largest ever by an American jury.
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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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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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Philip Morris USA challenged a $10.1 billion consumer fraud ruling Wednesday, telling the Illinois Supreme Court that its &quot;light&quot; cigarettes performed as advertised.
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Appeals court says punitive award against Philip Morris is still &#39;excessive&#39; and must be halved. LOS ANGELES  - A California appeals court has ruled that a smoker&#39;s $3 billion punitive damages award
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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 $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 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 federal class-action lawsuit filed in Boston yesterday on behalf of Massachusetts smokers demands that Philip Morris USA Inc. pay for computerized chest scans for its customers in an effort to detect early-stage lung cancer.
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Government regulation of tobacco could backfire by inadvertently forcing smokers to light up more and inhale more deeply, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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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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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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A federal judge says the nation's top cigarette makers conspired for decades to mislead the public about the health hazards and addictive nature of smoking, but she says there's not much she can do to make them pay.
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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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Cigarette makers lied and tried to  confuse the public about the dangers of smoking for 50 years,  the U.S. government said on Tuesday as its $280 billion case  against the industry went to trial.
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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 $280 billion suit against cigarette makers.