Mass. jury: Firm gave black kids free cigarettes
Story Date: 12/15/2010

 

Source:  Steve LeBlanc, NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/14/10

A jury has ruled the Lorillard Tobacco Co. tried to entice black children to become smokers by handing out free cigarettes and has awarded $71 million in compensatory damages to the estate and son of a woman who died of lung cancer.

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