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• Lee's Summit family awarded $20 million in tobacco case 

Jump to full article: Kansas City (MO) Star, 2005-02-02
Author: LINDA MAN / The Kansas City Star

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A Jackson County jury today awarded a Lee's Summit family $20 million in punitive damages against the maker of Kool cigarettes.

The family of Barbara Smith sued Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation in a wrongful-death lawsuit, alleging the company hid the adverse health effects of cigarettes. Smith had smoked Kool cigarettes for nearly 50 years before dying of a heart attack in 2000.

Brown & Williamson said the risks of cigarettes were well known. Moreover, Smith died 10 years after she quit smoking.

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