Fla. Jury Hears Menthol Smoker Succumbed To Addiction

By Cara Salvatore ( May 1, 2026, 8:13 PM EDT) -- A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988....

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