( December 15, 2022, 1:38 PM EST) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate court panel on Dec. 14 affirmed a $2.5 million compensatory damages verdict to the widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer at age 57 after rejecting a tobacco company’s argument that the widow failed to present evidence that the smoker relied to his detriment on misinformation about the health risks of smoking disseminated by tobacco industry representatives....