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NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that one of the lead plaintiffs in the second-hand smoke lawsuit filed by flight attendants against the tobacco industry took the stand today. Norma Broin told jurors that passenger cabins in airplanes were often thick with smoke and there was little separation between smoking and non-smoking sections. She said the 1990 ban on smoking on domestic flights brought a dramatic change. Broin is a non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer 8 years ago. She blames her cancer on being forced to work in smoke-filled airplane cabins.
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