That’s what Lorillard Tobacco did 60 years ago when it introduced Kent cigarettes, whose patented ’Micronite” filter contained a particularly virulent form of asbestos. Smokers puffed their ...

Bygones: In 1954, local researcher said best cigarette filters made of asbestos A look back at local news from years past.

An asbestos cigarette filter may sound like a product liability jackpot for plaintiffs lawyers. But as it turns out, plaintiffs have had a hard time recovering damages against Lorillard Tobacco ...

Besides old homes, this white asbestos has been known to be in brake pads and linings, and eight plants in the U.S. use asbestos filters to make chemicals to disinfect drinking water and wastewater.

Hollingsworth & Vose Co. made the filter materials. Braun sued both companies. This was the sixth trial in the nation over the asbestos filter, according to William S. Ohlemeyer, Lorillard’s lawyer.

Lorillard Inc. has won a federal court case claiming the death of a Baltimore man was caused by asbestos released by filters in Kent cigarettes. The suit was filed by the family of Stanley Lesnick ...

A Baltimore jury awarded more than $2 million yesterday to a cancer victim who smoked cigarettes with asbestos filters — a landmark verdict against the twin poisons of tobacco and asbestos.The ...