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Miami. U.S. cigarette makers were ordered by a Miami jury today to pay $145 billion in punitive damages for injuring hundreds of thousands of smokers. The settlement is the highest award ever in the United States. The trial, which spanned more than two years, was decided in just 4 1/2 hours, with the jury unmoved by the tobacco companies' pleas that a verdict against them would be a "death warrant" for a major U.S. industry. Attorneys for the five tobacco companies involved in the Engle case, named after Howard Engle, a Miami pediatrician, have vowed to spend years appealing the verdict. |
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