Smoker’s Widow Tells Panel Hard Drug Evidence Properly Excluded From Trial

(January 8, 2024, 1:55 PM EST) -- MIAMI — A dead smoker’s widow in a Jan. 5 appellee brief urges a Florida appellate panel to reject a tobacco company’s argument challenging a $5 million Engle verdict in her favor on the basis that the trial court excluded evidence of the smoker’s use of crack and heroin, arguing that the evidence at issue is unreliable and relates only to alleged late-life use after the smoker’s lung cancer diagnosis....