Nathan Cohen could not stop smoking even after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
He tried hypnosis, nicotine gum, even attended anti-smoking seminars before succumbing to cancer in 1994.
A Florida jury on Wednesday awarded the widow of a cigarette smoker $26.6 million after finding cigarette manufacturers R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris liable for causing his lung cancer and death. The jury decided the cigarette makers should pay Nathan Cohen's widow $10 million each in punitive damages and awarded her $6.6 million in compensatory damages. A $10 million jury award was reduced by a finding that her husband was one-third responsible for his illness.
March 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Nathan Cohen could not stop smoking even after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
He tried hypnosis, nicotine gum, even attended anti-smoking seminars before succumbing to cancer in 1994.
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