Back in the mid-1980's, Minnesota saw its first tobacco lawsuit. The widow of a man named John Forster sued R.J. Reynolds, the maker of Camel cigarettes. She said smoking caused her husband's cancer. But after two dismissals and two re-instatements by appeals courts, the case was dropped due to the enormous expense of fighting the tobacco industry. The family's attorney, Mike Weiner , has been watching the state's tobacco case. He says this time, the industry might have finally met its match.
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