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• Brown & Williamson Should Pay for Smoker's Death, Lawyers Say 

rown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. should be held responsible for a longtime smoker's death, his lawyers told a state court jury today in the first individual suit against cigarette makers to go to trial in Texas.

In closing arguments in Beaumont, Texas, a lawyer for the deceased smoker's relatives said tobacco companies ``treated human life as just the price of doing business.''

``They knew that cigarettes caused lung cancer, they knew the danger of addiction,'' attorney Denman Heard told jurors. ``Every time they had a chance to share the truth with the American people, they lied.''

Brown & Williamson attorneys are scheduled to make closing arguments after a lunch break.

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