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Suit: Lorillard targeted blacks 

Lorillard Tobacco Co. has been sued by the son of a woman who died from lung cancer who claims the company handed his mother free cigarettes while she was a young girl.

The suit, filed Monday afternoon in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts, says the Greensboro-based tobacco manufacturer held Newport cigarette giveaway events near Marie R. Evans' housing project in Roxbury, Mass. According to the suit, Lorillard used giveaways to attract black children and teenagers and get cigarettes into their hands. . .

At its current status, McIntyre expects the case go to court in about three years.

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