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Smokers' lawyers: Cases may take 180 years without consolidation 

Attorneys for about 1,100 smokers suing tobacco companies are asking the state Supreme Court to restore a consolidated, two-phase trial plan that has been dropped by a judge in Ohio County.

Otherwise, they say, it would take the circuit court 180 years to sort out each case individually.

"An inefficient trial plan would practically deny a substantial portion of these terminally-ill plaintiffs their day in court," the smokers' attorneys said in a filing with the Supreme Court.

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