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The North Dakota Supreme Court reversed the Workers Compensation Bureau's denial of disability benefits, holding that the evidence did not support a finding that the firefighter's occupational smoke exposure was not a substantial contributing factor to his lung disease, thereby allowing the statutory presumption to stand.
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