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R.J. Reynolds Cries Foul Over New Labeling Requirements

July 27, 2011 | David Ford

Tobacco companies are challenging a law giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate their advertising.

On Wednesday in Cincinnati, Ohio, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments from tobacco companies. The companies are contesting provisions of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that requires warning labels to cover half the packaging on all tobacco products beginning next year.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company spokesman David Howard spoke with WFDD News.


   
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