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$37M Award Slams Philip Morris & Rjr at Cancer Trial
$37M Award Slams Philip Morris & Rjr at Cancer Trial

A Florida state court jury hit the nation’s two largest tobacco companies with a $37 million total damage award for the role it found the companies played in a woman’s death after losing a lung to cancer.

Richard Mahfuz claims the companies’ part in a sweeping scheme to hide the dangers of smoking through much of the 20th century hooked his wife to cigarettes and ultimately killed her.

Read the source article at CVN News

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