Jump to full article: Kansas City (MO) Business Journal, 2007-07-31
Intro: A Missouri appeals court has sent a case to the state Supreme Court involving a $20 million verdict against a tobacco company in Jackson County.
The appellate court decision reversed parts -- and affirmed others -- of a 2005 decision involving a Kansas City-area family that had sued Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
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Barbara Smith died in 2000 after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992. She had smoked Kool cigarettes starting shortly after she began smoking in 1942.
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