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Wife Indicted For Killing Husband With Secondhand Tobacco Smoke  

Criminal Prosecution Prompted by Son's Complaint to District Attorney
Jump to full article: PR Insider (at), 2008-04-18
Author: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) [http://ash.org/] Americ's First Antismoking Organization

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A wife has been indicted for killing her husband by causing him to contract fatal lung cancer after subjecting him to tobacco smoke for thirty years, and the District Attorney is pursuing the case at the urging of the couple's adult son.

That is the plot of a controversial new film titled 'The Pack' which is raising intriguing, emotional, and complicated questions about choice, individual responsibility, and the scope of criminal law. biz.yahoo.com/iw/080416/0387416.html

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