Boston Jury Awards $200M To Estate Of Smoker Hooked By Free Samples As Child

(October 6, 2023, 2:07 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts state court jury awarded the estate of a dead smoker $50 million in compensatory damages and $150 million in punitive damages after hearing evidence that the smoker died from lung cancer decades after she was hooked by a tobacco company marketing scheme involving distribution of free samples to teenagers. VIDEO FROM THE TRIAL IS AVAILABLE....