RJ Reynolds ordered to pay $23 billion to smoker's widow by Florida court

A billion dollars buys a lot of cigarettes, but $23 billion buys even more! A Florida court has sided with Cynthia Robinson, the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer 20 years ago, and ordered RJ Reynolds, owner of Camel cigarettes, to pay a record $23 billion dollars in punitive damages. That's over a decade worth of profits for America's second largest peddler of nicotine. Joe Ca ...