Jump to full article: New York Post, 2005-03-29
Author: ED ROBINSON
Intro: A Manhattan woman who said addiction to cigarettes gave her lung cancer has received $20.5 million award -- most of it from tobacco giant Philip Morris.
Norma Rose, 72, who began smoking in 1947 at the age of 15, was awarded more than $17 million in punitive damages by a jury in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.
She received an earlier award of $3 million compensatory damages against Philip Morris and the American Tobacco Co. Philip Morris would be responsible for $18.8 million of the total.
"I was hoping we could crush the tobacco companies for what they did to me," Rose said last night.
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