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Tobacco company appeals $20 million wrongful death case 

A tobacco company's attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that the firm shouldn't have to pay $20 million in damages to the husband of a Kansas City-area woman who smoked for decades.

Many claims in Lincoln Smith's lawsuit against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. were the same as ones a judge previously rejected in an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by his wife, Barbara, before she died, attorney Andrew McGaan said.

Both suits accused Brown & Williamson of causing the woman's respiratory and heart diseases and failing to warn about smoking dangers.

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