Collectors likewise are hovering over cigarette cases, pipes and snuff boxes belonging to Philip Morris.

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Next to snuff boxes, cigarette cases bring in the biggest sums.

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The cardboard cigarette cases being produced by French firm Dolmen are more subtle, being decorated with flower patterns or, perhaps, a portrait of Che Guevara, that global icon of rebellion.

BBC: Smoky bar

The impossible-to-replicate dinanderie vases (hand-hammered metalwork with applied metal inlays), the enameled cigarette cases depicting streets in Paris, the spiked walking sticks that are petrified stingray tails and the cocktail goblets dancing on their zigzagging silver stems, won't be making appearances on store shelves.

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There are cases where the science is clear and the public believes: Cigarette smoking.

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Cigarette firms have long argued that class action lawsuits are inappropriate in smoking and health cases, because not all victims of smoking-related illnesses can be assumed to have had the same appreciation of the risks involved in consuming tobacco.

BBC: Huge tobacco ruling overturned

Judges in 11 of 13 other cases have rejected similar attempts to put together a class that would almost certainly force cigarette makers into a multibillion-dollar settlement.

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