A widowed wife of a chain smoker, who died in 1996 due to lung cancer, has been awarded with $23 billion by the giant tobacco firm for the damages that she claimed made by the company’s product.
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According to the report, the lady, Cynthia Robinson, of Florida, sued the giant tobacco firm of America, R.J. Reynolds, by claiming that her husband was died due the products of this company.
She claimed the company conspired to conceal the health dangers of its products.
Court found the firm guilty regarding the issue and hence company had to pay a compensation of $23 billion.
The vice president of the company, J. Jeffery Raborn, said in a talk “This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness, and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented”.
The company is now planning to move to the next higher court for judgment.
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