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The National Law Journal
April 24, 2000
As a 2-year-old tobacco class action trial grinds toward a conclusion in Miami, Florida, a federal judge in Brooklyn is quietly pushing to trial a series of potentially multibillion-dollar tobacco cases, starting in June -- at a clip of one trial a month.
The cases include a national class action by lung cancer victims who smoked at least "20 pack-years," the equivalent of a pack a day for 20 years. Simon v. Philip Morris Inc.