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Smoking insight fuels Florida tobacco liability suit
In St Petersburg 85 year old Art Nelson recalls smoking four packs daily in youth. He relies on 24 hour oxygen for emphysema and heart failure, with Medicaid covering about 150 dollars monthly for his oxygen machine and over 500 dollars monthly for eight prescribed medicines. Florida seeks to reclaim Medicaid costs from tobacco companies by a 1994 liability law designed to aggregate thousands of cases and remove the industry defenses. Nelson supports the suit, saying cigarette makers should be held responsible for the health harms caused by smoking.
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