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Jury Awards Total Of $152 Million In Case Alleging Distribution Of Cigarettes To Children
Posted on 17 Dec 2010 by Michael Lefkowitz

BOSTON - (Mealey's) A Massachusetts jury added $81 million in punitive damages on Dec. 16 to the $71 million in compensatory damages it had awarded two days earlier to the estate and only son of a woman who said she began smoking free Newport cigarettes... Read More

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$81M In Punitive Damages For Giving Kids Free Cigarettes
Posted on 17 Dec 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BOSTON - (AP) A tobacco company that had tried to hook black children on cigarettes was ordered Thursday to pay $81 million in punitive damages to the estate and son of a Boston woman who started smoking at age 13, in what an attorney said is one of the... Read More

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Massachusetts Jury: Firm Gave Black Kids Free Cigarettes
Posted on 15 Dec 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BOSTON - (AP) A jury has ruled the Lorillard Tobacco Co. tried to entice black children to become smokers by handing out free cigarettes and has awarded $71 million in compensatory damages to the estate and son of a woman who died of lung cancer. The... Read More

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