KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? A federal jury on Friday ordered two major tobacco companies to pay nearly $200,000 to a Kansas smoker who lost his legs to a circulatory disease.

David Burton of Kansas City, Kan., sued R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. in 1994, alleging they hid the dangers of smoking from the public, even though they knew cigarettes were dangerous. He smoked from 1950, when he was a teen-ager, until 1993, when a circulatory disease forced doctors to amputate his legs.

The jury ordered R.J. Reynolds to pay Burton $196,416 and Brown & Williamson to pay him $1,984 in compensatory damages. Burton claimed the companies’ cigarettes caused him to develop peripheral vascular disease in 1993.

The companies said Friday they will appeal the verdict.

U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum will decide punitive damages at a hearing later that just involves R.J. Reynolds.

The plaintiff’s attorney, Kenneth B. McClain, said his client was happy the case was decided in his favor.

Daniel W. Donahue, senior vice president and deputy general counsel for Reynolds Tobacco, said the evidence presented at trial does not support the verdict. He said smoking had not been established as a risk factor for developing peripheral vascular disease until the early to mid-1970s.

“The company has no obligation to warn about risks that are commonly understood, and there is certainly no obligation to warn about risks that are not yet known,” Donahue said.