( December 10, 2024, 2:47 PM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts state court jury awarded $10.6 million against a tobacco company, including $2.5 million in punitive damages in favor of the surviving family members of a woman who got hooked on cigarettes after being handed a free sample at age 12 and continued to smoke until her death from lung cancer in 2018 at age 59....