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Blunts Bill Defeated in Philadelphia

David Savona
Posted: March 12, 2007

Cigars will continue to be sold in the City of Brotherly Love: a judge has struck down City Ordinance 060345-AAA, known as the Blunts Bill.

The Blunts Bill banned the sale of flavored cigars; all cigars within 500 feet of a school, recreation center, day-care center, church or community center; and individual cigars except in specialty cigar stores, hotels and restaurants, all in a purported attempt to keep people from buying cigars intended to be used as drug delivery devices. The bill went into effect in late January, but was never enforced, as a group of cigar companies, including Philadelphia's Holt's Cigar Co., sued to block the bill and a judge granted an injunction. The ruling by Judge Gary Glazer of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County appears to end the threat.

The judge wrote that nearly everything covered in the bill was preempted by the Pennsylvania Drug Paraphernalia Act.