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Aurora mom sues tobacco shop over teen's death

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Valid days after his 19th birthday, Dobner's son Max called his fellow-citizen saying he smoked the “legal attributes” and was experiencing symptoms consistent with a fear attack. Later that day, he ran a stop sign in North Aurora, and hit a garden barricade. His car became airborne, and crashed into a house, police said.

On Tuesday, Dobner's old lady filed a lawsuit in DuPage County accusing the Cigar Box in Aurora of selling an “unreasonably iffy” product — iAroma Hypnotic — which she contends at the last led to her son's death June 14.

According to the lawsuit, the Cigar Box, formerly at the Westfield Fox Valley mall, was not rightly licensed to sell tobacco in Aurora or run as a business in DuPage County at the time of the bang. The shop since has closed and its owner, identified in the lawsuit as Ruby Mohsin of Glen Ellyn, could not be reached for annotation.

The lawsuit says iAroma Hypnotic was “intentionally mislabeled” as potpourri, but Mohsin knew or should have known it was “routinely, if not exclusively, toughened as something smoked by people” when the store sold it to Max Dobner and a financier the afternoon of the crash.

Source: Chicago Daily Herald