Philip Morris Prior Addiction Statement May Cost It Victory (1)

Philip Morris USA Inc.‘s past statement that it “intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive” by manipulating nicotine levels led to a legal setback in another case Aug. 22, this time at the Second Circuit.

A man whose wife died of lung cancer won a second chance from a federal appeals court to prove the cigarette maker should be held liable for her death.

A lower court didn’t properly evaluate if it was required to accept as true Philip Morris’s past statement about intentionally designing cigarettes to be more addictive, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second ...