Government,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 11, 2022
California sued over ban on flavored tobacco products
More than 300 jurisdictions across the nation have some sort of flavored tobacco ban and most of the challenges to those laws have failed. Tobacco companies filed their complaint a day after a referendum on the 2020 law was overwhelmingly passed by voters.
Tobacco companies sued California a day after a referendum on a 2020 law that banned the sale of flavored tobacco products was overwhelmingly passed by voters, arguing the federal Tobacco Control Act preempts states and localities from completely prohibiting their sale because of “preferred tobacco product standards.”
Tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., American Snuff Company LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Inc. and Modoral ...
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