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A Massachusetts jury today ordered cigarette manufacturer Lorillard Inc. to pay $71 million in damages to a dead smoker's family for allegedly seducing the Boston woman decades ago into smoking Newport cigarettes. The Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded compensatory damages of $50 million to the estate of Marie Evans and $21 million to her son, William Evans. A hearing on punitive damages in the lawsuit has been scheduled for Thursday. The total amount of damages awarded could rise significantly at that hearing. The case was the first to claim that Lorillard had decided to target minority communities with samples of...

Colorado FReepers, here is your chance to FReep Her Majesty in person. Short notice but we are prepared to give her a cold response to her book tour stop here in flyover country. Got a couple of hours to spare Saturday afternoon? Want to meet some like minded folks and Freep? Come on down......