The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has unanimously struck down warning labels on cigars. They noted flaws in the FDA’s Deeming Rule regulating cigars and said that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) did not do enough work to show an effect of large cigar warning labels on reducing smoking rates.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 28, 2017 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, announced a new comprehensive plan for the approach the agency will take to the regulation of tobacco products, placing an emphasis on a science-based method, that notes a "continuum of risk" that recognizes the differences in tobacco products.
Election Day 2016 November 10, 2016 - Election Day 2016 was indeed an historic night for the country. Cigar Rights of America would like to congratulate Donald J. Trump and Governor Mike Pence for their victory on election night.
In light of the recent news delivered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding total regulation of the premium cigar industry, our family has decided to take action, but we need your help. We cannot do this alone.
Yesterday, the big four cigar manufacturers (Davidoff, Drew Estate, Altadis, General) announced that they were pulling out of the PCA trade show for 2020. Read more about that here. Since that announcement several companies have released official statements, including PCA itself. Below are those statements.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Cigar Association of America, the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association and Cigar Rights of America filed a Motion for Summary Judgment and opening brief in the cigar industry's litigation challenging the FDA's Final Deeming Rule.
On April 24, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released proposed regulations to extend the authority of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, to additional tobacco products. This can have a major impact on the cigar industry along with the other tobacco products that the FDA is targeting.