8th Circuit Asks If States ‘Cannot Prohibit Anything’ In Tobacco Flavor Ban Appeal

Mealey's (May 13, 2021, 1:40 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 12 hearing a group of tobacco manufacturers and retailers’ challenge to a Minnesota city’s ordinance banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products questioned whether the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) preempts municipalities from enacting such ordinances to the extent that states “cannot prohibit anything.”...