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• Local Pensioner Suing Cigarette Company 

Jump to full article: St. Petersburg Times (ru), 2001-04-03
Author: Molly Graves and Galina Stolyarova / STAFF WRITERS

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A St. Petersburg pensioner is claiming damages of $71,500 from local cigarette producer Petro, in the first law suit against a tobacco company to be heard in a Russian court.

Ivan Prokopenko, represented by the city-based law firm OSV, is demanding compensation for the cancer which resulted in the removal of one of his lungs. Prokopenko says that the cancer, diagnosed two years ago, was the result of smoking Belomorkanal, a non-filtered papirosa cigarette, made by Petro.

Petro is owned by multinational tobacco corporation Japan Tobacco International (JTI). It also produces the Winston, Camel, Russky Stil and Peter I brands.

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