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Legal and Finance: Why days of smoky jazz club could be numbered [Source: Birmingham Post; Birmingham (UK)] 

The seedy glamour of the smoke-filled jazz club could soon be a thing of the past following a recent out-of-court settlement in favour of a casino worker, it was claimed today.

The five-figure payout -estimated at more than pounds 50,000 -to an employee who claimed he developed asthma over 14 years of working in a smoky atmosphere, could trigger a series of cultural changes, as well as a flood of similar claims, according to product liability specialist Darren Smith.

'The implications for the club, pub and restaurant sector are really enormous,' said Mr Smith, an associate in the Midlands office of international law firm Reed Smith.

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