Jury Slaps RJR With $6.4M Verdict, but $0 Punitives, in Trial Over Smoker’s Fatal Emphysema

Jurors awarded $6.4 million to the family of a Florida smoker who died of emphysema, but handed down a $0 punitive verdict Thursday, one day after finding R.J. Reynolds potentially liable for punitives for its role in the smoker's death. Prentice v. R.J.

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