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• Tobacco Companies Set to Defend Themselves in New York Trial 

Arguments in the latest suit open this week in a Brooklyn, New York, state courtroom, where the tobacco companies will try to convince a jury that plaintiff Clyde Anderson's emphysema and cancer do not entitle him and his wife to damages. . .

``There has never been a (tobacco) case litigated in New York,'' said David Adelman, an analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. ``All of these cases are important.''

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