Widow Defends $34M Verdict For 38-Year-Old Smoker’s Death As ‘Not About Race’

( June 27, 2025, 8:19 AM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The widow of a dead 38-year-old smoker urges a Florida appellate court in her answer brief to affirm the verdict and disregard a tobacco company’s arguments that the jury was inflamed by improper argument about “racial targeting,” writing that her case properly emphasized “fraudulent conduct” not “racism.”...