Roll Call article about FDA deeming regulation and cigars

[Bill Godshall]

FDA Might Decide When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar : Roll Call Policy

Please note that FDA has stated its intent to propose the "deeming" regulation to apply Chapter IX of the FSPTCA to ALL currently unregulated tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah/shisha, dissolvables, skin creams.

The cigar industry is comprised of very different products and companies, as about half of the 13 billion cigars sold/consumed in the US in 1012 used to be called "little cigars" or "small cigars" that come 20 per pack and resemble a cigarettes (except they have a brown cigar wrapper instead of white paper wrapper).

Also, please note that large premium cigars only account for 6% of all large cigars (and just 3% of all cigars) sold/consumed in the US (i.e. about 780 million in 2012), but they account for 30% of all cigar industry revenue (in terms of dollars).

 

[Hulamoon]

I suppose it's too much to hope that certain government wheels would be up in arms about this, as they themselves are the customers of large premium cigars? What are the dissolvables and skin creams Bill? I've never heard of such.

 

[mwa102464]

Sure seems to be all about the old mighty $$$$ just like the legalization of "MaryJane", now there going to impose a $50 per ounce tax on that in the states it is now legal in, very soon maybe more. Tax Tax Tax and more Tax all to pay for all the crooked politicians we have in office, and Gov't is still growing more and more, But wait, they work for all of us in the USA , Right ? what a freaking joke this is all turning out to be.