Smokers Get $25 Apiece From Philip Morris USA Over Lights
- Massachusetts judgment is for deceptive marketing of Marlboros
- Class action sought $600 million and went on for 17 years
This article is for subscribers only.
Almost 200,000 Marlboro Lights smokers will get $25 each plus interest -- a fraction of the $600 million the plaintiffs had sought from Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA -- after a Massachusetts judge found they were duped into buying what they thought was a safer cigarette.