The family of a smoker who died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has won a $3 million jury award from an Escambia Circuit Court jury in Pensacola.
Evelyn Thibault started smoking in 1949 when she was 13, developed COPD in 1995 and continued to smoke until she became oxygen-dependent and her family deprived her of cigarettes in 2001. She filed a personal injury suit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in 2008. She died three years later, and the suit was converted to a wrongful death action.
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