Mealey's (May 12, 2021, 12:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles County and its board of supervisor in a May 7 brief urge the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a district court’s ruling that the county’s ban on flavored tobacco products is not preempted by federal law and does not obstruct federal regulatory goals as it says is shown by the Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement of plans to ban menthol flavored tobacco products and all flavored cigars....