An attorney representing Liggett Group - formerly Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, gives opening statements Tuesday at the Lee County Courthouse in the trial of a former Collier School principal who retired due to cancer from smoking. John Szymanski of Fort Myers is suing three large tobacco companies in a Lee Circuit Court trial expected to take three or four weeks. Under the law, he doesn't have to prove cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer or that the companies concealed that from consumers, just that his cancer is related to his smoking. Lexey Swall/Staff

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An attorney representing Liggett Group - formerly Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, gives opening statements Tuesday at the Lee County Courthouse in the trial of a former Collier School principal who retired due to cancer from smoking. John Szymanski of Fort Myers is suing three large tobacco companies in a Lee Circuit Court trial expected to take three or four weeks. Under the law, he doesn't have to prove cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer or that the companies concealed that from consumers, just that his cancer is related to his smoking. Lexey Swall/Staff

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