Seals v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that failure to completely cease smoking is not relevant where there is evidence the claimant attempts to stop or succeeds in lessening their smoking, as this shows the claimant is attempting to comply
• “If the plaintiff was unable to stop smoking because she was addicted to nicotine, her noncompliance would not be unjustified. The burden is on the Commissioner to produce evidence of unjustified noncompliance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).