When Los Angeles lawyer Michael Piuze decided to take on tobacco giant Philip Morris, he turned to a handful of San Francisco attorneys who knew how to win against big tobacco. By pooling their ...

In his new cookbook "Project Smoke," author Steven Raichlen outlines seven steps to "smoked meat nirvana," and the first step is a fundamental: Choose your smoker. Easier said than done. There are ...

NEW YORK – In a blow to the tobacco industry, a federal judge ruled Monday that a jury should decide whether tobacco companies must pay tens of millions of smokers up to $200 billion for allegedly ...

The widow of a smoker filed the first individual suit Monday in Broward Circuit Court since the Florida Supreme Court eased the way for smoker lawsuits against tobacco companies. Lucrecia Pummer sued ...

NEW YORK — In a blow to the tobacco industry, a federal judge ruled Monday that a jury should decide whether tobacco companies must pay tens of millions of smokers up to $200 billion for allegedly ...

A Boston court awarded $71 million in damages Tuesday to the family of a dead smoker, after the jury found that the marketing campaign of cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. seduced the dead woman into ...

A Los Angeles jury Thursday ordered tobacco giant Philip Morris Cos. to pay $850,000 to a longtime smoker who is gravely ill with lung cancer, marking the industry’s fourth straight loss in California ...

CINCINNATI — A pair of Cincinnatians filed a federal class-action lawsuit Friday against the makers of Juul e-cigarettes, arguing amid a rash of vaping-linked illnesses that the company deceived ...

Performance Food Group Inc. signed a $4.7 million class settlement with tobacco-using employees who said they were wrongly charged penalties for health-care coverage without being given a legally ...

Lawyers for Louisiana smokers asked a jury to direct Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. and other U.S. cigarette makers to pay more than $1 billion to fund a quit-smoking program.