Convenience Store News reported, “the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a request to postpone the effective date” of the FDA’s new cigarette warning labels by another 120 days. The FDA “cited the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on…both the tobacco industry and the FDA as reasons for the delay.”

CSP Magazine reports that a Texas court “postponed the date new cigarette health warnings will be required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).” R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., “along with several other manufacturers and five retailers, and the FDA jointly asked the court on May 6 for a 120-day extension of the effective date of the warnings because of the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on manufactures, retailers and the FDA.” Cigarette manufacturers “have until Oct. 16, 2021, to comply with the new rule – which has been challenged by several lawsuits.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.