UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This appeal involves the responsibility of an airline, as a common carrier, to protect its non-smoking passengers from the effects of tobacco smoke from smoking passengers.
In July 1977, plaintiff Mark D. Ravreby, a Des Moines physician and member of the Iowa bar, purchased from defendant United Airlines, Inc., a first-class round trip ticket to Reno, Nevada, for $410. At the time Dr. Ravreby checked in for his flight on July 28, 1977,...
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