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de la ROSA v. PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS, INC.

Civil No. 97-1335 (PG).

975 F.Supp. 161 (1997)

Zacarías de la ROSA, Teostita Guilamo, and their conjugal partnership, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS, INC., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., John Doe and Richard Roe Insurance Companies, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

August 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Godwin Aldarondo-Girald, Hato Rey, PR, for Zacarias de la Rosa, Teostita Guilamo.

Manuel A. Guzmán, San Juan, PR, for Philips Morris Products.

Salvador Antonetti & Heriberto Burgos-Pérez, San Juan, PR, for R.J. Reynolds.

OPINION AND ORDER

PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.

I. Background

Plaintiff is a citizen of the Dominican Republic and a legal resident of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He began smoking at age fifteen in his native Dominican Republic, mostly Marlboro and occasionally Winston brand cigarettes. In 1989, at the age of 47, Plaintiff moved to the island of Antigua, where he quit smoking. He...

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