Mealey's (April 26, 2022, 2:29 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles County and its board of supervisors argue in an April 25 response to three tobacco companies’ petition for rehearing en banc that a split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel correctly upheld the county’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales as not preempted by federal authority in light of the “unique text and history” of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA)....