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A big victory for nonsmoker made ill by coworker's cigarettes 

Gym teacher Donald Magaw spent most of his career sharing a tiny, unventilated locker-room office with his heavy-smoking friend Robert Anderson. After 26 years, Anderson retired and quit smoking. And within months, Magaw learned he had cancer.

This week, in a unique anti-smoking case with a refreshing tone of forgiveness between friends, Magaw finally forced the Middletown School District, in Monmouth County, to compensate him for five years of treatment of his rare tonsil cancer, apparently caused by secondhand smoke. "I don't hold any ill-will against Bob," Magaw said yesterday. "The tobacco industry did a great job of hiding everything from the world. If the blame is to be put on anybody, it should be put on the tobacco industry."

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I don't hold any ill-will against Bob. . . The tobacco industry did a great job of hiding everything from the world. If the blame is to be put on anybody, it should be put on the tobacco industry.
Gym teacher Donald Magaw, who won his second-hand smoke case against a NJ school district over sharing an unventilated locker-room office with his heavy-smoking friend Robert Anderson. Quoted in <i>A big victory for nonsmoker made ill by coworker's cigarettes</i>