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Miami Jury Rejects Damage Request in First Flight Attendant ETS Trial 

``The plaintiff is suffering from a terrible disease, but it is a disease that is not associated with exposure to tobacco smoke,'' said William S. Ohlemeyer, Philip Morris vice president and associate general counsel.

``We fully understand the sympathy that everyone - including the jury - must feel for Ms. Fontana under these circumstances, but the jury's verdict was the correct one based on the evidence presented and the applicable law,'' he said.

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