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Cancer victim's widow seeks more than $100 million
Jump to full article: Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, 2000-06-30
Author: Chris Thompson / Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Intro: Joseph Lee Nunnally is partly to blame for becoming hooked on cigarettes as "a foolish 8-year-old child," but so is the company that makes the deadly products that caused his death, said the attorney for Nunnally's widow.
Opening arguments began Thursday in Kay Nunnally's wrongful death lawsuit against tobacco company R.J. Reynolds. . .
Kay Nunnally's attorney, Charles Merkel of Clarksdale, said R.J. Reynolds is liable for marketing an addictive product that company officials knew would kill consumers. . .
"This is a case about choice. About a choice made by an 8-year-old child, and a choice made by adults sitting in offices, thinking, planning, trying to make profits."
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