Tag: PCA
Cigar News: Dunbarton Announces “The DTT Timeshare Experience”
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust (DTT) has announced the “The DTT Timeshare Experience,”...
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Cigar News: US Court of Appeals Strikes Down Warning Labels
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.
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Cigar News: PCA Furloughs Entire Staff Says 2021 Trade Show Still Happening
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) announced today that they are furloughing their entire staff, effective July 15th indefinitely. PCA is best known for their annual trade show (which was cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19) and their cigar rights lobbying efforts.
Read More Cigar News: PCA Cancels Trade Show
PCA announced today the cancellation of its Convention and Trade Show for 2020 that was scheduled to take place July 10-14 at the Sands/Venetian Convention Center and Hotel. This cancellation is due to public health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Cigar News: PCA Says The Trade Show is Still Happening
The PCA released a statement today about the status of their annual trade show scheduled to take place July 10 – 14, 2020, saying that it plans, for now, on having the event.
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Cigar News: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Announces Two New Brûlée Sizes
Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust announced on Facebook today, two new sizes to the Sobremesa Brûlée line: Brûlée Double Corona, and Brûlée “Blue.”
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Cigar News: District Court Judge Deems Warning Labels for Premium Cigars Illegal
Today, United States District Court Judge, Amit Mehta, deemed that the the warning label requirements for premium cigars imposed by the FDA are illegal. Mehta threw out the warning requirements for premium cigars with the reasoning because the FDA did not properly analyze the different usage patterns between premium cigars.
Read More Cigar News: Official Responses to Big Four Manufacturer PCA Pullout
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.
Read More Cigar News: Altadis, General, Davidoff, and Drew Estate Not Attending PCA 2020
Today, the four largest cigar companies in America announced that they will not be attending the PCA (formerly IPCPR) trade show this year. Altadis, General, Davidoff, and Drew Estate each released separate press releases but the general consensus is that they are unhappy with the declining attendance, lack of cooperation with members to make changes to the organization, and rising costs. The linchpin for this action new seems to have been the general unrest around last year’s poorly executed announcement of Consumer Day, which has since been cancelled.
Read More Cigar News: PCA Cancels CigarCon 2020
After facing backlash from manufacturers, retailers, and media about their proposed cigar convention next year, CigarCon, the PCA (formerly IPCPR) has cancelled the event, for next year at least. The association says they are still considering if for 2021. They have also created a sub-committee to focus on CigarCon in the hopes of planning it in the future.
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