{"id":10039,"date":"2009-09-10T03:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:05:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-10T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:05:16","slug":"court-rejects-big-tobaccos-challenge-to-sfs-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/10\/court-rejects-big-tobaccos-challenge-to-sfs-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rejects Big Tobacco&#8217;s Challenge to SF&#8217;s Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/09\/09\/MNKN19KRP5.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea\">today rejected<\/a> Phillip Morris&#39; challenge to San Francisco&#39;s ordinance banning the sale of tobacco in pharmacies.  Phillip Morris&#39; appeal was based on its claim that it has a First Amendment right to sell its cigarettes wherever it wants.  A First Amendment right!  As in, free speech.  <\/p>\n<p>As Philip Morris&#39; head magician, Jack Marshall, said:   <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose and effect of the ordinance is to suppress communications directed to adult smokers, in violation of our constitutional rights,&#8221; said company spokesman Jack Marshall.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, no.  The purpose and effect of the law is to try to stop your company from killing more people.  For some strange reason, the Ninth Circuit didn&#39;t buy Philip Morris&#39; argument.<\/p>\n<p>Another appeal, filed by the pharmacies on equal protection grounds, is still pending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/09\/09\/MNKN19KRP5.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea\">today rejected<\/a> Phillip Morris&#39; challenge to San Francisco&#39;s ordinance banning the sale of tobacco in pharmacies.  Phillip Morris&#39; appeal was based on its claim that it has a First Amendment right to sell its cigarettes wherever it wants.  A First Amendment right!  As in, free speech.  <\/p>\n<p>As Philip Morris&#39; head magician, Jack Marshall, said:   <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose and effect of the ordinance is to suppress communications directed to adult smokers, in violation of our constitutional rights,&#8221; said company spokesman Jack Marshall.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, no.  The purpose and effect of the law is to try to stop your company from killing more people.  For some strange reason, the Ninth Circuit didn&#39;t buy Philip Morris&#39; argument.<\/p>\n<p>Another appeal, filed by the pharmacies on equal protection grounds, is still pending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2BV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}