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February 19, 2009

Philip Morris Ordered to Pay $8M to Florida Widow
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In Florida, the tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay $8
million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer.
Elaine Hess’s husband, Stuart Hess, died in 1997 at the age of
fifty-five. Philip Morris faces some 8,000 similar lawsuits in Florida
alone. The company says it plans to appeal.



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