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• Tobacco's winning streak continues in flight attendant secondhand smoke cases ($$) 

After nine trials over the health effects of secondhand smoke on flight attendants, the defense has emerged victorious in all but one. The trials stem the 1997 settlement of a class action - Broin v. Philip Morris - which gave more than 3,000 fli ...

According to Benjamine Reid of Miami, who defended the tobacco industry in its most recent victory in November of 2007, the defense has typically argued that the injured was not caused by secondhand smoke because "in the environment of an airplane cabin, there is not enough exposure to secondhand smoke to cause any injury."

But the plaintiffs have not given up hope.

"We have a long way to go," said Edward Sweda

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