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• 'Pegger takes on Big Tobacco  

A Winnipeg woman is hoping to succeed where all other smokers have failed in the fight against Big Tobacco.

Deborah Kunka has filed a class-action suit alleging the industry has intentionally misled the public about the health effects of smoking and targets children to maintain their profits.

Kunka, says the lawsuit, began smoking in 1976 when she was 12 years old "after seeing various tobacco advertisements which portrayed smoking as 'glamorous' and 'prestigious' and which failed to adequately warn, or warn at all, about the harmful effects of smoking."

Kunka, says the lawsuit, continues to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day despite suffering chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma and reversible lung disease.

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