A Fort Lauderdale jury handed down a $13 million verdict for the widow of Paul Pollari, an Oakland Park butcher who smoked for about 50 years and died in 1994 after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Jurors awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages against cigarette manufacturers R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA in the trial before Broward Circuit Judge John Murphy III.

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