Dr. Howard A. Engle Pediatrician led anti—tobacco lawsuit 07/23/2009 MiamiHerald.... Page 1 of 3 Elle miamiitleralh Posted on Thu, Jul. 23, 2009 Dr. Howard A. Engle Pediatrician led anti-tobacco lawsuit BY ELINOR J. BRECHER ebregher@MiamiHeraldcom Dr. Howard A. Engle, the veteran Miami Beach pediatrician who lent his name to a landmark class action suit against Big Tobacco, died Wednesday at home, said son David Engle. He was 89 and suffered from smoking-related respiratory disease and lymphoma. He had been in hospice care since last fall when he finally quit smoking. Decades before he signed on as lead plaintiff in what became known as the “sick smokers of Florida" suit, Engle was an institution in Miami Beach, where he treated multiple generations of many families before retiring from private practice in 1997. He was also revered in Miami's black community for refusing to segregate his practice in the pre—civil rights era and for opening an office in Liberty City. Famously gruff and forthright, Engle was nonetheless single-mindedly dedicated to his young patients. “He treated all his patients as if they were his own kids," son David said. “He'd stay up all night with a sick kid who was thought to be hopeless." Anyone who knew Howard Engle understood that he cared far more about his role as a doctor than as a litigant even though Engle, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 00., et al, marked a seismic shift in the legal battle against a once-invincible industry. In 1994, Miami personal-injury lawyers Susan and Stanley Rosenblatt filed the class action lawsuit in Miami—Dade Circuit Court. They asked Engle who had treated eight of their nine children —- to represent some 700,000 Florida smokers. They knew he had been tobacco-addicted since the cigarette companies gave University of Wisconsin medical students like him free smokes in the early 19403, that he had been unable to quit and that he loathed Big Tobacco's strategies to hook youngsters. The Engle case was the first smokers' class action to come to trial in a US. court. A Miami- Dade jury, after hearing 157 witnesses in two years, decided that the industry had intentionally misled smokers about cigarettes' dangers and awarded a record-breaking $145 billion in damages. The case went twice to the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami, which initially upheld, http://wwwmiamiherald.com/news/obituaries/v-print/story/l155158.htm1 07/24/2009 , Location: , Date: , Creator: , Description: , Additional Info: , OCR Text: Dr. Howard A. Engle Pediatrician led anti—tobacco lawsuit 07/23/2009 MiamiHerald.... Page 1 of 3 Elle miamiitleralh Posted on Thu, Jul. 23, 2009 Dr. Howard A. Engle Pediatrician led anti-tobacco lawsuit BY ELINOR J. BRECHER ebregher@MiamiHeraldcom Dr. Howard A. Engle, the veteran Miami Beach pediatrician who lent his name to a landmark class action suit against Big Tobacco, died Wednesday at home, said son David Engle. He was 89 and suffered from smoking-related respiratory disease and lymphoma. He had been in hospice care since last fall when he finally quit smoking. Decades before he signed on as lead plaintiff in what became known as the “sick smokers of Florida" suit, Engle was an institution in Miami Beach, where he treated multiple generations of many families before retiring from private practice in 1997. He was also revered in Miami's black community for refusing to segregate his practice in the pre—civil rights era and for opening an office in Liberty City. Famously gruff and forthright, Engle was nonetheless single-mindedly dedicated to his young patients. “He treated all his patients as if they were his own kids," son David said. “He'd stay up all night with a sick kid who was thought to be hopeless." Anyone who knew Howard Engle understood that he cared far more about his role as a doctor than as a litigant even though Engle, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 00., et al, marked a seismic shift in the legal battle against a once-invincible industry. In 1994, Miami personal-injury lawyers Susan and Stanley Rosenblatt filed the class action lawsuit in Miami—Dade Circuit Court. They asked Engle who had treated eight of their nine children —- to represent some 700,000 Florida smokers. They knew he had been tobacco-addicted since the cigarette companies gave University of Wisconsin medical students like him free smokes in the early 19403, that he had been unable to quit and that he loathed Big Tobacco's strategies to hook youngsters. The Engle case was the first smokers' class action to come to trial in a US. court. A Miami- Dade jury, after hearing 157 witnesses in two years, decided that the industry had intentionally misled smokers about cigarettes' dangers and awarded a record-breaking $145 billion in damages. The case went twice to the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami, which initially upheld, http://wwwmiamiherald.com/news/obituaries/v-print/story/l155158.htm1 07/24/2009 , WLFamily,Engle,Howard Engle Obituary.pdf,Howard Engle Obituary.pdf Page 1, Howard Engle Obituary.pdf Page 1