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(Adds in 2nd paragraph that jury began deliberating; adds lawyer quotes in 7th and 11th paragraphs.)
Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 1999-06-02
Intro: Industry lawyers countered that Butler's lung cancer could have just as easily been caused by his family's health history, his diet and his long-term exposure to hair spray and talcum powder. ``Talc is contaminated with asbestos,'' said Jeffrey Furr, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina lawyer representing tobacco companies. Asbestos exposure has been found to cause lung cancer in non-smokers, he added.
The industry's expert witnesses found ``not a shred of evidence that environmental tobacco smoke caused Mr. Butler's lung cancer,'' Furr said.
In fact, plaintiffs never produced evidence of which brands were smoked in Butler's shop, said Andrew R. McGaan, a Chicago lawyer representing Brown & Williamson. ``We don't know who smoked what at what time,'' he said.
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