As the U.S. cigarette market dips, the nation's second-largest tobacco company, Reynolds American, announced Tuesday that it plans to buy the third-largest one, Lorillard, for about $27.4 billion ...

BOSTON (AP) - Marie Evans recalled she was 9 years old when she first started getting free cigarettes in the Boston housing project where she lived... BOSTON (AP) – Marie Evans recalled she was ...

North Carolina’s Lorillard Tobacco, for instance, gave nearly four times as much cash to Republican candidates during the 2014 congressional election cycle. But the company made a striking ...

An independent Lorillard could take on debt to pursue ... Reynolds American Inc., the nation’s second-largest tobacco company, bought smokeless tobacco company Conwood Co. in 2006 and has ...

Usually, the nation’s third-largest tobacco company can smoke through a small- business owner’s resources in court. But this time, Lorillard has met its match. Last week, for the second time ...

A jury found Wednesday that Lorillard Tobacco Co.’s cigarettes contributed to the death of a Palos Verdes Estates man, but the amount the company must pay to his widow was not immediately clear.

Lorillard attorney Walter Cofer acknowledged that the company gave away free cigarette samples -- a common practice by tobacco companies from the 1950s through the 1980s -- but said Lorillard did ...

On June 12, parent company Imperial Tobacco acquired the Winston, Salem and Kool brands from Reynolds American, plus the Maverick and Blue Cigs brands from Lorillard tobacco company in Greensboro ...

The nation's third-biggest tobacco company said revenue excluding excise taxes increased more than 9 percent to $1.02 billion. Analysts expected Lorillard to earn $1.68 per share on revenue of $ ...