A federal appeals court rejected a lower court requirement that tobacco companies run advertisements saying they deliberately deceived the public on health risks associated with cigarettes, Reuters said.

Handing tobacco companies a partial win in the long running legal battle over court-mandated corrective statements, the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC allowed another requirement that companies disclose cigarettes were “intentionally designed” to cause addiction. The appeals court sent the case back to the lower court for more proceedings, Reuters said.
Altria, Lorillard and Reynolds American are among tobacco companies challenging the corrective statements, which stem from an earlier racketeering case judgement against the cigarette makers.
(Philip Morris USA Inc v. United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 13-5028)