Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over constitutional right to sell cigarettes

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Friday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit over the constitutional right to sell cigarettes. The lawsuit was brought by Safeway, Inc. [corporate website], a chain of grocery stores, challenging a San Francisco city ordinance banning the sale of cigarettes by pharmacies. The original ordinance had included an exception for "big-box stores" that contain pharmacies, but it was amended due to a lawsuit brought by…