Saint-Nazaire - A unit of French social security has decided to sue tobacco companies for compensation for the sums it spends on caring for the victims of smoking-related diseases.
In the first such move in France by the country's health insurance providers, officials of the social security fund in the western French port said they would sue the four main companies supplying 90 per cent of the French market - France's Seita, US giants Philip Morris and Reynolds Tobacco and Britain's Rothmans.