(ANSA) - Rome, May 10 - The family of a smoker who died of
lung cancer on Thursday lost a damages suit against big tobacco
and the Italian tobacco monopoly.
The supreme Court of Cassation said smoking was "an act of
free will" and ordered the family to pay costs of 20,000 euros.
The man, a two-packet-a-day smoker from his youth, filed the
suit in the early 200s before dying a few years ago.
His family carried it on.
Cancer-hit smoker loses suit
Family ordered to pay court costs