Mealey's (February 16, 2021, 2:07 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration and their acting leaders in a Feb. 12 appellee brief to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals say that tobacco industry associations’ challenges to the FDA’s deeming rule regulating cigars and pipe tobacco products are meritless, that the associations are challenging statutory requirements imposed by Congress and that any errors in the implementation of the rule are not errors in the rule itself....