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 ...

ST. PAUL , Minn. (CN) — Minnesota sued the $7 billion tobacco company that acquired the Kool, Winston, Salem and Maverick brands from the merger of R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard, claiming it is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Lorillard Inc., the nation's third-biggest tobacco company, has acquired U.K.-based electronic cigarette maker SKYCIG for 30 million pounds (about $49 million) to expand its ...

Now Lorillard becomes the first of the big three to suit up. Lorillard's acquisition of blu comes as the tobacco company reports net sales decreased $9 million to $1.526 billion in the first ...

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 ...