Cigarette cancer lawsuit ends in $71M verdict

In the late 1950s, a tobacco company sent representatives into a Boston housing project giving away free cigarettes to children. Some of those children got hooked for life or, in the case of Marie Evans, for death. Mrs. Evans had her first puff at age 13 and smoked after that until she was 54, when she died of lung cancer. Recently, a Boston jury found that the cigarette company, the Lorillard