The suit is particularly aimed at curbing smoking among the young.

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France will follow suit next year after introducing a ban on smoking in offices, hospitals, schools and shops on Thursday this week.

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Philip Morris argued the suit should be chucked out because the smokers admitted in depositions they were still smoking lights.

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"They're never easy cases, there's no smoking gun, " ACLU of Arizona legal director Dan Pochoda said of the class-action suit.

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