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U.S. Supreme Court rejects smoker's lawsuit 

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by a California smoker who alleged the $206 billion tobacco settlement between 46 states and the four major cigarette companies violated antitrust laws.

As a part of the multi-state settlement, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard Inc. agreed in November 1998 to pay the states to settle claims by the states for smoking related costs they incur.

Without comment, the nation's high court declined to hear the case that Steve Sanders brought originally in June 2004, when he sued the four tobacco companies and the state of California.

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