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Smokers' Attorney Thomas on Verdict in Tennessee: Comment 

``If you sue the entire industry like (Woody Wilner) did and you have multiple plaintiffs, the documents are not enough to carry one plaintiff. The defenses to each individual case have a cumulative value so that if you have three plaintiffs, bad things about one plaintiff's case are held against another plaintiff in the liability determination, which it appears is what occurred here. Remember, in our case the jury decided 50-50 on negligence. It was on the fraud charge that the jury sided completely in our favor.''

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