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Family's cigarette claim denied / Jury rejects lawsuit seeking damages for Duluth man's death 

A cigarette maker is not responsible for the death of a Duluth man who claimed the company negligently sold asbestos-filled filters in their brand almost 50 years ago.

That was the decision reached by a St. Louis County jury on Monday after a three-week trial.

The jury also rejected the nearly $1.2 million in damages the family of Richard A. Carlson, who died of cancer in 1996, was seeking from the New York-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. . . ``The jury heard all of the evidence and determined Kent Micronite cigarettes did not cause this gentleman's mesothelioma,'' said Thomas Thibodeau, a Duluth attorney representing Lorillard.

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