(February 1, 2024, 12:18 PM EST) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate panel on Jan. 31 affirmed a $2.5 million compensatory damages verdict issued against two tobacco companies in favor of the estate of a smoker who died in 1993 from lung cancer, rejecting arguments that an expert witness’s comment that smoking may have caused the smoker’s ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage were improper or inflammatory....