Judge awards $15 million in damages in tobacco case against R.J

Saturday, June 22, 2002

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Accusing tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds of failing to "repent of its ways," a federal judge awarded $15 million in punitive damages Friday to a former smoker who lost his legs to a circulatory disease he blamed on cigarettes.

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