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Jump to full article: (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Sun-Sentinel, 2006-03-03
Author: Missy Stoddard South Florida Sun-Sentinel Posted March 3 2006
Intro: It took a Palm Beach County jury 90 minutes to decide Thursday that cigarette-maker Liggett wasn't responsible for the 2002 death of 72-year-old Boca Raton resident Leila Schwartz.
Her widower, Leonard Schwartz, 79, said he wanted Liggett, which for decades made the unfiltered Chesterfield brand that Leila smoked for 50 years, to be punished for their actions.
"I would've been happy to win money ... but more important was for [Liggett] to be liable for their lack of honesty," Schwartz said. "But the jury spoke and that's it."
Liggett attorney Aaron Marks argued that for years before her death, Leila Schwartz suffered myriad health issues, such as depression, high blood pressure and cholesterol, a painkiller dependency and heart disease. Two heart attacks and triple bypass surgery, Marks said, ultimately killed Mrs. Schwartz. Doctors didn't consider a cancerous lung tumor found two months before Leila Schwartz's death to be terminal, Marks told jurors.
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