A Broward Circuit Court jury has awarded $1.83 million to the family of a longtime smoker who died while her case against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. was pending.
Lillian Kaplan smoked from 1940 when she was 12 until she was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 1994. She also developed lung cancer in 2012 from smoking, the jury decided Thursday. She died at 84 in September 2012.
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