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View Resource Supreme Court Rules on Tobacco Regulation

In a major victory for cigarette manufacturers and a setback for the Clinton Administration, the nation's highest court ruled Tuesday that the government does not have the authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug. The case, on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, concerns the sweeping new regulations introduced by the Food and Drug Administration in 1996 with the...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-1152.ZS.html