烟草在线据国际烟草杂志报道编译　　奥驰亚集团说，纽约上诉法院驳回了一项代表烟民提出的可能具有开创性的诉讼案。烟民们在诉讼中要求奥驰亚集团为肺癌的早期检验测试支付费用。

　　奥驰亚在一份声明中说，这宗诉讼要求法院命令拥有菲莫美国公司的奥驰亚集团为长期吸烟的人及前烟民的CT检测支付费用。

　　纽约上诉法院在自己的意见书中维持了一家联邦法院在2011年作出的驳回诉讼请求的裁决。纽约上诉法院说：“这个请求缺乏证据表明当前人身遭到了伤害或给财产被造成了损失，允许提出这样的诉讼请求就会大大偏离我们的侵权法院审判规程。”

Altria wins smokers' health screening suit

　　The New York Court of Appeals rejected a potentially ground breaking suit filed on behalf of smokers who asked Altria Group to pay for early detection tests for lung cancer, the cigarette maker said.

　　The suit asked the court to make Altria, which owns Philip Morris USA, to pay for computed tomography (CT) testing for long term smokers and former smokers, Altria said in a statement.

　　In its opinion, the appeals court upheld a 2011 dismissal of the claim by a federal district court. "Allowance of such a claim, absent any evidence of present physical injury or damage to property, would constitute a significant deviation from our tort jurisprudence", the court said.