Jury Awards $5.5M In Damages For Smoker’s Lung Cancer Death

Mealey's (November 24, 2021, 10:03 AM EST) -- BARTOW, Fla. — A Florida jury on Nov. 17 awarded a deceased smoker’s daughter $5,570,593 in compensatory and punitive damages at the conclusion of her trial against a tobacco company she said fraudulently deceived her father by concealing the risks of cigarettes and falsely marketing filtered cigarettes as safer. VIDEO FROM THE TRIAL IS AVAILABLE....