Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 27, 2000 (Geiger v. American Tobacco Co.)

—In a proposed class action by and on behalf of, among others, New York State residents who have contracted lung and/or throat cancer from smoking cigarettes, to recover damages, inter alia, for failure to warn prior to 1969, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Berke, J.), dated September 2, 1999, which denied their cross motion for class certification.