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US - Morris, Pay Us for Your Cigarette Damage! Philip Morris - No Way! Back to Court They Go. 

Should Philip Morris be responsible for paying for anti-smoking campaigns or for returning profits made over the years from sales of their dangerous products to consumers? Clearly, in the U.S., the original ruling had a huge impact on smoking and on cigarette sales, but the impacts did not extend into non-U.S. countries where companies like Philip Morris continued to feed misleading and deceptive marketing to smokers. The fact that Philip Morris could actually afford to pay either the damages or the penalties as originally ordered is a sign that cigarette smoking continues around the world, and that the companies are a long way from going up in a puff of their own smoke.

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