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1 THE COURT: Overruled.
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2 A Not current smokers.
3 That percentage is what we would call ever
4 smoked regularly.
5 And if you looked at the time period, Dr.
6 Selikoff has studied it, if you looked in the general
7 population, you would find that 80 percent of people
8 were either current smokers at the time or past
9 smokers, so it is not an inappropriate number.
10 It is just the comparison population of the
11 U.S. is also smoking.
12 Q Not to belabor the point, he studied 17,800
13 people for close to 30 years.
14 Tell the jury the number of people who were
15 nonsmokers who developed lung cancer in that study?
16 A Well, probably in 1979, first of all, as you
17 said, had relatively few that were lifetime nonsmokers
18 because of the numbers.
19 I think he found either four or five lung
20 cancers in the nonsmoking group in 1979.
21 Q Doctor, didn't he find zero people with lung