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WASHINGTON–The Supreme Court rejected stringent Massachusetts advertising restrictions aimed at keeping storefront cigarette signs out of view of children, but said the state can require shopkeepers to keep tobacco products out of youngsters’ reach.
Handing a victory to the tobacco industry, the justices said Thursday that the ad curbs were pre-empted by a federal law that governs tobacco labeling and advertising. The court also said some of the rules — barring cigars and smokeless tobacco signs near schools or playgrounds
— violated First Amendment free-speech protections.
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