Online tobacco retailers fight back

New Yorkers cheap discount cigarettes, cigarettes online who purchase their cigarettes online may be saved from a state statute which would end Internet tobacco sales to New York consumers buy cigarettes, cheap cigarettes.

The Online Tobacco Retailers Association, three cheap cigarettes , cigarette of its members and two New York consumers filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York against Governor George Pataki, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Commissioner of Health Antonia Novello. They seek to have New York Public Health Law section 1399-ll declared unconstitutional discount cigarettes.

The statute was originally buy cigarettes scheduled to take effect on Nov. 14, 2000 but was challenged in October 2000 by two cigarette manufacturers who claimed that the statute violated the commerce clause of the United States Constitution. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in their favor, enjoining enforcement of the statute marlboro cigarettes.

The state appealed and on Feb. 13 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the decision of the district court and upheld the statute against the legal challenges raised by the plaintiffs.

In the suit filed April 17, the association, along with an Indian tobacco retailer, online tobacco retailers located outside New York state and two disabled consumers, raised new constitutional challenges against the statute buy winston lights cigarettes.

They contend that the statute discriminates against both out-of-state online tobacco retailers and Indian retailers, to the benefit of local convenience stores parliament lights cigarettes.