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Fort Lauderdale, FL—Attorneys debated what drove a Florida woman to smoke up to two packs a day until cancer cost her a lung, as trial over her death began last week against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies. Mahfuz v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036743.

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West Palm Beach, FL— R.J. Reynolds’ role in a vast conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking helped hook a Florida man to cigarettes and ultimately caused his lung cancer death at 59, an attorney for the man’s family said last week as trial opened against the tobacco giant. Gafney-Hanners v. R.J. Reynolds, 2007-CA-020540.

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CVN's on-demand video library includes hundreds of high-stakes trials featuring the best attorneys across the country. But each month some of those trials stand out from the rest, based on interest and discussion surrounding them. Below are 10 of January's most-watched, most discussed trials from the CVN library. 

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Gainesville, FL— R.J. Reynolds was hit with a $13.5 million punitive verdict Thursday for its part in the throat cancer death of a Florida smoker. Bessent-Dixon v. R.J. Reynolds, 2015-CA-002554.