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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Tobacco Company Found Guilty of Giving Free Cigarettes to Black Children

Tobacco Company Found Guilty of Giving Free Cigarettes to Black Children

A North Carolina-based tobacco company tried to entice African-American children to become smokers by handing out free cigarettes in Boston during the 1950s and 1960s, a jury ruled on Dec. 14, awarding $71 million in compensatory damages to the estate and child of a woman who died of lung cancer in 2002.

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