The widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer brings the nation’s biggest cigarette producer to court this week in the first trial spawned by a Florida Supreme Court ruling that decreed smoking is dangerous and addictive and causes disease.
But before Elaine Hess can benefit from the landmark decision in the wake of the death of her husband, Stuart, plaintiffs lawyers must prove the late smoker would have been part of a class of sick Florida smokers that was disbanded by the 2006 court decision.
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