Gainesville, FL—Attorneys Tuesday debated what role R.J. Reynolds and its marketing played in the death of a Florida smoker, as trial opened against the tobacco giant. Dixon v. R.J. Reynolds, 2015-CA-002554.

Tyrone Dixon, 39, died in 1994, a little more than a year after doctors diagnosed him with laryngeal cancer that his family maintains spread to his brain, and more than 25 years after he started smoking.