A US jury recommended that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8m (€9.7m) in punitive damages to the daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

Philip Morris lawyers have urged a judge to slash a $3bn (£2.1bn) punitive damages award to a cancer-stricken smoker and to grant a retrial.

A US jury has ordered tobacco giant Philip Morris to pay more than $3bn (£2bn) to a lifelong smoker, holding the company responsible for his incurable lung cancer.