SPRINGFIELD — Less than a year after a Hampden Superior Court judge awarded a family who lost a loved one to lung cancer a whopping $105 million in damages, a city man brings a similar lawsuit against Big Tobacco in federal court.

Juan Cotto, 56, first sued in state court in late August. The $5 million lawsuit was removed to federal court on Nov. 10. The complaint says Cotto was in 2022 diagnosed with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer after being a cigarette smoker since he was 15 — more than 40 years.

Named are R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA Inc., Liggett Group LLC, Cumberland Farms of Massachusetts LLC and Walgreens of Massachusetts Inc.

The lawsuit — like hundreds of thousands before it — argues the tobacco giants, and retailers, ultimately conspired to market and

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