[42] This power was explicitly granted to the FDA by the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which also outright banned flavors in cigarettes other than menthol
The advantage of commercial options
As Geoffrey Hobbs QC, a lawyer for BAT, who, along with JTI has said it plans to appeal the ruling, observed: This case is not just about tobacco there are proposals coming from different sources for the same sort of reasoning and approach to be applied in relation to foods with high salt content, foods with too much fat, too much sugar. More importantly, the new regulation was disproportionate and would not work, the cigarette giants argued
"But, bottom line, it made our dad happy, and it was, at least at times, a fun collection."