Cigar Aficionado

A judge in Maryland yesterday ruled in favor of a coalition of public health groups suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has ordered the agency to speed up its approval process …

This week, five members of the premium, handrolled cigar industry in the Dominican Republic met with the country’s President, Danilo Medina, to discuss concerns over FDA regulations in the …

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has filed a measure that aims to place a series of onerous restrictions on premium, handmade cigars, including banning all Internet cigar sales as well as making the …

Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) yesterday filed a bill that seeks to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, including premium cigars, to 21 years old.

Today in Ybor City, Florida—once the epicenter of American handmade cigar production—Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) led a Congressional field hearing on premium cigars.

For the first time ever, Congress will hold a hearing specifically on premium cigar regulation.

Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed a new rule detailing how all tobacco product manufacturers—including cigarmakers—should submit their Substantial Equivalence …

Florida Rep. Kathy Castor introduced a bill yesterday in the House of Representatives that seeks to exempt premium cigars from burdensome FDA regulations.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at flavored tobacco products, putting flavored cigars in the target as well.

Dr. Norman E. Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will become acting director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when Commissioner Scott Gottlieb leaves the position.

The cigar industry gained breathing room today as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration extended the deadline for cigar product testing, which was originally scheduled for November 8.

After nearly two years as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Scott Gottlieb has resigned.

Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, updated Congress about the FDA's plans to regulate premium cigars.

The three main lobbying groups that represent the cigar industry have filed a joint appeal that reaffirms their challenge of the FDA’s Final Deeming Rule.

When Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) filed a bill at the beginning of the month calling for premium cigars to be exempt from FDA regulations, details on its exact language were not disclosed. Now …

Sen. Marco Rubio has reintroduced a bill to the U.S. Senate aiming to protect premium cigarmakers from the FDA.

Among the many issues Republicans and Democrats will be debating as they try to figure out how to divide the roughly $313 billion in available funds is a rider that blocks the FDA from …

Florida Congressman Bill Posey sent a letter last week to Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, urging the department head to “take swift action” and alleviate uncertainty …