SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Warnings On Cigarettes

CNN reports:

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from major tobacco companies to the FDA’s requirement that they place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements. The FDA issued a rule in 2020 that requires health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements, occupying the top 50% of the area on the front and back panels of packages and at least 20% of the area at the top of cigarette ads, according to the FDA.

Several major tobacco sellers, including the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, sued, arguing that the warnings run afoul of the First Amendment and that the agency violated federal rulemaking procedures when it issued it. A federal judge in Texas initially sided with the companies and wiped away the rule. But the

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