Cigar Makers Tell 3rd Circuit Philadelphia’s Flavored Cigar Ban Is Preempted

Mealey's (April 7, 2021, 1:51 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A cigar industry association and two cigar and tobacco manufacturers write in an April 2 appellee brief that the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should affirm a district court’s ruling enjoining enforcement of the city of Philadelphia’s ordinance restricting the sales of flavored cigars and roll-your-own tobacco products because they say the court properly found that the ordinance is preempted by state law....