A Boston federal judge has blocked plaintiffs suing Philip Morris USA Inc. from arguing that the company should have provided electronic cigarettes to consumers as a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes.
At the same time, the judge has allowed to proceed other key claims in the case against the tobacco company, which dates back to 2006. Plaintiffs are suing to make Philip Morris run a court-supervised program to screen for early-stage lung cancer.
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