TOBACCO companies have sold “light” cigarettes for decades by promoting their supposedly low tar content, implying that this might make them less harmful to smokers’ health than cigarettes with more ...

Melissa Block talks with Tom Perrotta, staff reporter for the New York Law Journal, about U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, who is the presiding judge on the class action lawsuit involving "light" ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - So-called "light" cigarettes may damage a smoker's blood vessels as much as regular cigarettes do, a small study shows. Researchers in Turkey found that among healthy young ...

A judge says cigarette labels such as "light," "ultra light" or "low tar" will no longer be permitted. Alan Blum of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society at the University of Alabama, offers ...

Suits filed against two cigarette makers over the marketing of "light" cigarettes have been thrown out by a federal appeals court. Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court upheld a nearly $37 million judgment in favor of Patricia Walsh Greene, who claimed she was misled by Marlboro parent company Philip Morris into believing its ...

SEATTLE - Two local women are taking on the tobacco industry giants and it could mean a whole lot of money in your pocket. Lower in tar. A breed apart, but not sacrificing the great taste. These are ...

More than 45 million Americans are smokers, and nearly 85 percent of them buy "light" cigarettes such as Marlboro Lights, which are advertised as having lower tar and nicotine. The Supreme Court, on ...

A federal appeals court has decided to review a lower court ruling that let a $200 billion lawsuit filed by “light” cigarette smokers proceed as a class action, according to a court document. The ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More and more countries are banning the words "light" and "mild" from cigarette packs, but a new study suggests that may not be enough to dispel smokers' misbeliefs that ...

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