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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