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Fort Lauderdale, FL— Jurors Monday handed down a $132,000 verdict for the lung cancer death of a Florida woman who smoked for more than half a century, but they cleared one of the two tobacco company defendants at trial and apportioned the lion’s share of fault to the smoker herself. Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036745.

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Fort Lauderdale, FL— Jurors Monday heard competing narratives surrounding what drove a Florida woman to smoke for decades, as trial over her cancer death opened against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies. Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036745.