Proposed Ban on Mailing Cigarettes Excludes Cigars

David Savona
Posted: August 10, 2006

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) recently introduced legislation aimed at prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from shipping cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, but the senator's office says the bill does not include cigar shipments.

Collins claims that Web sites make it "easier and cheaper for kids to buy cigarettes," and hopes to get cigarettes and smokeless tobacco added to the Postal Service's list of restricted, non-mailable products. "The postal code already makes it illegal to mail alcoholic beverages and guns," the senator wrote on her Web site. "My legislation will close a loophole that has allowed Internet and mail-order companies to circumvent the law and has contributed to teenage access to cigarettes."

Jen Burita, a spokeswoman at Collin's Washington, D.C., office, clarified the senator's position on "other tobacco products" mentioned in the legislation. "The senator's bill does not apply to cigars," she said.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

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