-- free giveaways contributed to his mother's death
The son of a woman who started receiving free cigarettes at her city
housing project when she was 9 years old is suing the manufacturer for
its alleged role in his mother's death. The lawsuit, which will be
filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday according to The Boston
Globe, is thought to be the first to accuse a tobacco company of
targeting black children. Marie Evans, said in interviews with lawyers
before she died in 2002 at age 54, that as a child she would get free
sample packs of four to 10 Newport cigarettes from a company giveaway
van that regularly came to her Orchard Park housing project in the
Roxbury neighborhood. [more]
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