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• R.J. Reynolds Wins Mississippi Lawsuit 

Joseph Nunnally began smoking sometime between the ages of eight and 10, just a couple of years before health warnings started appearing on packages. He died in 1989 at age 37.

``It would have been more of a surprise if the industry had lost this case rather than having won it,'' Martin Feldman, tobacco analyst with Salomon Smith Barney, said after the verdict was announced. ``The industry has generally done well within the heartland of America.''

``It really is a good bellwether test on the issue of personal responsibility, in terms of smokers willingly taking and knowingly taking the risk when they smoke,'' Sanford C. Bernstein analyst William Pecoriello said.

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