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Pou family applauded for taking on tobacco giant 

Anti-smoking groups have congratulated Janice Pou and her family for taking action against two tobacco companies after their civil action in the High Court at Auckland closed yesterday. . . .

Justice Graham Lang yesterday reserved his decision in the case of Brandon and Kasey Pou, executors of their motherÂ's estate, who are continuing their motherÂ's litigation in seeking $310,966 in damages.

In the first week of the case, video footage was shown to the court of Mrs Pou giving her evidence from her hospital bed in Dunedin the month before she died.

Mrs Pou claimed when she began smoking in 1967, the tobacco companies had failed to warn her of the potential health dangers.

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