Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Matchbooks as Tobacco Ads

A FindLaw article from last Friday talks about the Ohio Supreme Court upholding a decision that "matchbooks given out at bars & stores cannot bear advertising for cigarettes or other tobacco products under the 1998 settlement that involved 46 states and the major tobacco companies.

Ohio had sued R.J. Reynolds over the matchbooks, with the tobacco company prevailing in Franklin County. But the 10th. Ohio District Court of Appeals in Columbus reversed that ruling, with the Supreme Court then agreeing. The opinion is posted on the Supreme Court's website.

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