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Miss. Tobacco Suit Rejected 

A jury rejected a $102 million wrongful death suit Wednesday filed against a tobacco company by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer. . .

``Nobody made him smoke,'' Reynolds' attorney Mike Ulmer said of Joseph Nunnally in his closing argument. ``He had a right to choose and that's what this case is all about.''

A defense expert witness, Dr. George Seiden of Shreveport, La., a psychiatrist, had testified that his experience and review of Nunnally's medical records led him to believe that Nunnally knew the hazards of smoking and could have stopped smoking if he had felt motivated to do so.

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