Cancer victim's family had claimed cigarettes defective
Jump to full article: Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, 2000-07-13
Intro: Nunnally's lawsuit claimed that her late husband, Joseph Lee Nunnally, 37, developed cancer in 1987 after smoking cigarettes from the time he was a child.
"I really don't know what to think," she said after the verdict was read. "Cigarettes are defective."
Mike Ulmer of Jackson, attorney for R.J. Reynolds, said he was pleased jurors didn't believe claims that the cigarette maker's products were defective.
Lin Winkle, a juror from Olive Branch, said all 12 jurors agreed Joseph Lee Nunnally knew that cigarettes were dangerous.
She said if jurors had been asked to determine whether R.J. Reynolds' cigarettes were deadly and not defective, then the outcome would have been different.
"The verdict would have been yes," she said. "They would have agreed to that."
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