Smokers get $4.9m from Philip Morris USA in suit over Marlboro Lights The award in Monday’s decision was a blow to plaintiffs, but the ruling of deceptive marketing adds fuel to several personal-injury lawsuits pending in Massachusetts, said Edward Sweda Jr., senior attorney at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “Plaintiffs’ lawyers will try to rely on this and ask it to […]