AVIATION SMOKING CASE
April 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
GREECE'S Olympic Airways has been ordered to pay US$1.4 million by an American court after a man died in 1998 from an asthmatic reaction to on-board cigarette smoke. The judges ruled airline attendants had negligently failed to heed his request to move to a smoke-free zone.
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GREECE'S Olympic Airways has been ordered to pay US$1.4 million by an American court after a man died in 1998 from an asthmatic reaction to on-board cigarette smoke. The judges ruled airline attendants had negligently failed to heed his request to move to a smoke-free zone.
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