FDA to Expand Regulation to Cigars

In September, the FDA acted to tighten its grip on tobacco products from of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to include cigars. The regulation of cigars can kill the industry to a sad shell to what it is today. The freighting thing is that these new regulations can be put in at any time!

• Higher prices from cigar user fees or “taxes” that will fund this crackbrained bureaucracy
• Bans of walk-in humidors
• Implementation of grotesque health warnings covering 50% of cigar boxes. That will extinguish the tradition of decorative artwork on cigar boxes that is so engrained into the cigar culture
• Ban of self-service displays
• Mandated bland black-and-white only cigar advertisements
• Ban of in-store cigar tastings
• Prohibition of branded merchandise 
• MUCH MUCH MORE 

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