The Board found that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to a cause or causes other than the use of tobacco products during service or secondary to nicotine dependence. The Board also determined that the Veteran's death was not attributable to the use of tobacco products during service or secondary to nicotine dependence.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of medical evidence is against a nexus between the Veteran's in-service smoking and his fatal brain tumor, and there is no competent evidence of a diagnosis of nicotine addiction beginning during or otherwise linked to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Malignant brain tumor
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2009
- Citation
- 0930619
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