I'm not sure how the new regs will affect pipe tobaccos so, should we have plans to get more now and "cellar" them or what?
I've not heard anything concerning pipe tobacco but did hear
something about "premium" cigars being affected but not -how- they would be. I'm not exactly sure what they consider to be a "premium" cigar.
EDIT: Perhaps this is it;
"Cigars that were on the market in 2007 will be allowed to remain for sale, but any cigars introduced since then will have to endure the same sort of regulatory hassles as Hestia tobacco. If they can’t prove they’re substantially equivalent to existing products—not just in their composition or their effects on smokers, but in their essentially unknowable potential health impacts on the population as a whole—then they will be ordered off the market.
It’s hard to predict what those applications will cost, but the most likely outcome is that the market for cigars will soon become a lot less diverse and a lot more boring. (Cuban cigars, which by definition were not legally on the US market in 2007, will obviously not be grandfathered in.)
As with manufacturers of e-cigarettes, makers of cigars will have two years to submit their applications. Then the FDA will have one year to rule on them, with a possibility for extensions. Given the agency’s dismal record on meeting deadlines for approving cigarettes and the flood of new applications for e-cigarettes, cigars,
pipe tobacco, and many other products it’s about to receive, it’s difficult to imagine that these applications will be handled in a timely manner."
May be worse than I thought!
