A Florida jury has awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She sued the cigarette maker in 2008. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent…

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Smoker’s widow awarded a staggering 23.6 billion dollars in damages
