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• Tillery battling Morris again 

Starting in his teens, Everett Kelly began smoking a pack-and-a-half of cigarettes a day, a habit he kept up for 30 years. On July 23, 2001, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Stephen Tillery, Kelly's attorney, lays blame for the cancer squarely at the feet of Marlboro Lights cigarettes. Tillery said on Wednesday that the 70-year-old Edwardsville man, unfortunately, doesn't have long to live.

Said Tillery, "He's the nicest man. It's a shame it had to end this way."

Kelly's cigarette of choice was Marlboro Lights. For years, Philip Morris has touted Marlboro Lights as being lower in tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes but Tillery says that claim was misleading and deceptive.

On Feb. 21, 2003, Kelly, who lives on Biscay Drive, filed a lawsuit in Madison County Circuit Court, alleging that, Philip Morris' assertions to the contrary, smoking Marlboro Lights actually harms the body by increasing the "harmful biological effects, including genetic and chromosomal damage." . .

On March 28, the suit was withdrawn from Madison County Circuit Court and moved to federal court in East St. Louis, where it was assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerald Cohn.

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Where there's smoke, there's ire/Man sues city -- for $30 -- over secondhand smoke 

Something doesn't smell right at City Hall, and Fred Ketterer knows what it is … secondhand smoke.

The Hazleton sign painter has gone to small-claims court to get the Buchanan County city to reimburse him the $30 it cost him to pay someone to go to City Hall to get a permit.

Ketterer, 58, could have done it himself but didn't want to breathe secondhand smoke from the city clerk's cigarettes.

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