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Local Smokers React To National Tobacco Verdict 

A New York jury found tobacco company Brown & Williamson liable for the death of Harry Frankson, a man who smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes cigarettes for decades.

We talked to a few smokers in Gulfport, and many of them don't see the verdict as the beginning demise of the tobacco industry, but they do see tobacco addiction as a choice that should not be rewarded.

"As far as getting a 20-million settlement, that's wrong. That is so wrong. They should have helped maybe to bury the man . But I don't think that woman deserved 20-million dollars because nobody forced her husband to smoke those cigarettes either," said Tobacco and Beer Discount Store assistant manager Jo-Ellen Hale.

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