the mixed decision in a wrongful death suit brought against Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. by the son of Marie Evans, who died of cancer in 2002 at age 54. Her family said she became a regular smoker at about age 13 after repeatedly getting free Newport cigarette samples at a playground.The justices found that jurors didn't get proper instructions on a wrongful death theory based on negligent design and marketing. They also vacated the finding that Marie Evans' death was caused by Lorillard's negligence.
The wrongful death suit was brought against Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. by the son of Marie Evans, who died of cancer in 2002 at age 54. Her family said she became a regular smoker at about age 13 after repeatedly getting free Newport cigarette samples at a playground.
The Supreme Judicial Court issued the mixed decision in a wrongful death suit brought against Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. by the son of Marie Evans, who died of lung cancer in 2002 at age 54.
The BBC's Anne-Marie Evans in Hong Kong Kong said it is hard to know what sentence Mr Chen could face if convicted, but it could be that the authorities decide to make an example of him by delivering a long jail term.
Date: Dec 22, 2011
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FDA weighs ban on Newports, other menthol cigarettes
In a lengthy deposition videotaped a few weeks before she died of lung cancer, Marie Evans recalled getting free sample packs of Newport cigarettes starting when she was 9. Glamorous women dressed in the colors of the Newport package handed them out at the housing project where Evans grew up in BostMarie Evans, a high-school dropout who went on to get her GED and an associate's degree, lived to see her son graduate not only from Boston Latin but from Harvard Law School. She died at age 54 in 2002. Her son turns 41 next week.More than a half-century since Marie Evans first collected free Newports, tobacco companies continue to market menthol cigarettes more heavily to blacks and other minorities in Boston, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported last summer in the American Journal of Health Promoti