Beauty tobacco companies was sentenced to death for compensation to the female smokers pentaerythritol million dollars

According to American media reports on December 14, Massachusetts on a jury ruled famous tobacco companies to a lorry radmanovic company died female smokers family compensation of 7,100 thousand dollar (about 4.7 billion yuan), reason is the company decades ago had with cigarette gifts entice when only nine years old she smokes.

The jury returned a verdict of tobacco companies to death female smokers Marie Evans compensatory compensate us $50 million, her son, $21 million. 16 the court will hold the case of punitive damages trial, so total compensation may also have risen sharply.

This is the first claim lorry radmanovic companies use "xingang" cigarette gifts open minority market case, Newport "is a kind of" black community where more popular mint cigarettes. The jury found, for Mary and other black children send cigarette gifts is a negligent conduct, saying the company was years deny the dangers of smoking. In 2002, 54, Mary the suction for more than 40 years of "xingang" cigarette after died of lung cancer. Before he died several weeks, she recorded a period of video calls himself in nine years old when he received a gift, she started her cigarette with these cigarettes for candy, MLB Hats at the age of 13, she began to smoke these gift.

Judicial experts said the jury found differs, Fox Hats although the government has been criticized the tobacco companies past sell means, but usually the court with the jury would not favoring prosecution tobacco companies smokers, because they New Era Hats think that smokers should part responsibility.

In court, the plaintiff that Mary was too small, do not know the dangers of smoking, but later she addiction is too large and can't quit, of course, she herself to take a bit of the responsibility.