Ohio’s attorney general can’t force smoke shops to put labels on certain e-cigarettes under state consumer-protection laws because that’s the purview of the federal government, an Ohio appeals court ruled Friday.
The claims Attorney General Dave Yost (R) made against a Cincinnati-area smoke shop over their allegedly deceptive labeling of unauthorized e-cigarettes as only allowed to be for sale in the United States are preempted by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the Ohio Court of Appeals, First District said.
Judge Ginger S. Bock said a Hamilton County Common Pleas judge properly granted summary judgment ...