R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. defeated a $37.5 million wrongful death lawsuit by persuading the jury that the company’s Winston cigarettes did not cause the plaintiff’s cancer.

Smoking gave Booker Davis lung cancer, which led to his 1997 death, the Miami jury found April 7. But Reynolds cigarettes weren’t the ones that killed him.

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