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Florida Ex-Smoker Receives Settlement [08/28-1]
Excerpts from: Ex-Smoker's Estate Receives Settlement
Associated
Press [08/27/03]
The estate of a man who said he suffered from lung cancer and emphysema because of a 50-year addiction to nicotine has received a $195,602 judgment from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
It was the first time R.J. Reynolds, the nation's second-largest cigarette
maker, paid damages in an individual product liability lawsuit, said Edward
Sweda, an attorney for the Tobacco Products Liability Council at Northeastern
University.
The money award, which was decided by a jury, was paid after two years of appeals.
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