JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Less than a week after the Florida Supreme Court tossed out a massive class-action lawsuit against Big Tobacco, lawyers across Florida are gearing up for battle on behalf of individuals and families hurt by smoking. The Florida Supreme Court, in a decision Thursday, upheld an appellate court ruling that it had been a mistake to certify the lawsuit as a class-action case representing an estimated 300,000 to 700,000 Floridians made ill by smoking. However, the high court said individual Floridians could mount individual challenges against the tobacco companies. That ruling, said Jacksonville attorney Norwood "Woody" Wilner, means thousands of smokers and their families may file individual lawsuits within the next year. Wilner led a legal team that won one of the first successful cases against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.