( May 30, 2025, 12:30 PM EDT) -- WOBURN, Mass. — The widower of a smoker told a Massachusetts state court jury during opening arguments in a wrongful death lawsuit against tobacco company Philip Morris USA Inc. (PM) and local retailers that the defendants sold defective Marlboro Lights that the decedent thought were healthier but which kept her hooked on smoking until she developed fatal lung cancer and died at age 64. VIDEO OF THE TRIAL IS AVAILABLE....