After suing a tobacco corporation after their loved one died, the family of a deceased woman was granted almost $9 million. Carolyn Long had been a smoker for many years until stopping in 2002. However, the harm had already been done at that moment. In the late 1990s, she was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She died of the disease in 2020, at the age of 80, after a long fight. Her husband, John, filed a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for causing her death. His lawyers claimed that nicotine had rewired his late wife’s brain in “powerful ways” since sh…