In front of the jury box, the surgeon was gesturing toward Rose Cipollone’s chest X-rays. He pointed out the “rounded shadow” that proved to be a lung tumor. He discussed the “mode of ...

SHORT HILLS, N.J. — Back in the summer of 1983, Rose Cipollone, a smoker for 40 years, was dying of lung cancer and looking for a lawyer to sue three cigarette manufacturers. She invited Marc Z.

The first award — $400,000 to the family of Rose Cipollone of New Jersey in 1988 — was overturned on appeal, and the lawsuit was later dropped. Carter, 70, sued Brown and Williamson in 1995 ...

I guess enough is enough.” The case began in 1983 when Rose Cipollone of Little Ferry, N.J., sued cigarette companies that manufactured the brands she had smoked for four decades. After her ...

There, Antonio Cipollone sought to make the tobacco companies pay for the death of his wife, Rose. Unlike every plaintiff before him, he succeeded; a jury awarded him $400,000 this week.