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Jump to full article: Findlaw, 2005-08-31
Author: KENNETH BRADLEY, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer
Intro: A Missouri smoker who sued Philip Morris USA Inc. for allegedly making false claims about the health effects of light cigarettes appropriately brought the matter as a class action, a state appeals court has found.
The suit filed in 2000 alleged that Missouri consumers did not receive "the qualities and economic value of low-tar, low-nicotine cigarettes."
The lawsuit said light cigarettes, when used normally, actually deliver higher levels of tar and nicotine than demonstrated in machine testing conditions.
Judge Michael David of the St. Louis Circuit Court certified a class of plaintiffs consisting of state "residents who had purchased [Philip Morris brand] lights in Missouri since 1971 but who do not have a claim for personal injury relating to smoking." . . .
Craft v. Philip Morris USA Inc., No. ED85142, 2005 WL 1944333 (Mo. Ct. App., E. Dist. Aug. 16, 2005). Tobacco Industry Litigation Reporter Volume 20, Issue 26 08/031/2005
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