A jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $150 million in punitive damages today in a lawsuit that contended low-tar cigarettes are as dangerous as regular ones. The jury found that Philip Morris had falsely represented that low-tar cigarettes are healthier, the first verdict in the nation to make that finding. The tobacco company said it would appeal. The jury also awarded $168,000 in compensatory damages to the estate of Michele Schwarz of Salem, who died of lung cancer at age 53 in 1999 after smoking low-tar Merit cigarettes. Schwarz had switched from a regular filtered cigarette because she believed the...