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Smoker’s widow awarded a staggering 23.6 billion dollars in damages
A Florida jury has awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She sued the cigarette maker in 2008. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer. Johnson started smoking when he was 13 and died of lung cancer when he was 36. The jury award is “courageous,” said Robinson’s lawyer, Christopher Chestnut.
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