Constitutional Law,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 9, 2021
San Diego County’s attempt to ban flavored tobacco is back in court
The case is one of several fronts in an ongoing war between state and local governments and tobacco companies. Reynolds, Philip Morris International Inc. and other tobacco companies have also sued to stop a California state ban on flavored tobacco products.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has filed a supplemental federal complaint against San Diego County over its revised flavored tobacco ban.
"The new ordinance is just as unconstitutional as the first," wrote Steven N. Geise, partner-in-charge of the San Diego office of Jones Day in the Thursday filing. "The federal Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts local bans on flavored tobacco products."
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