A Broward jury awarded $10.5 million to the family of a smoker who died of lung cancer.

Friday’s verdict assigned $3 million each in punitive damages to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Lorillard Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc. The jury also provided $1.5 million to Glodine McCoy’s 87-year-old widower for the pain and suffering of losing his wife in 1997.

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