Cigar Aficionado

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 …

A new study says FDA regulations threaten to put almost all U.S. handmade cigar manufacturers and importers out of business

The Cigar Rights of America has launched a petition that urges Congress to support a premium cigar exemption in its annual spending bill.

Cigaraction.org is a new grassroots advocacy site from the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers association.

The FDA has released its calculations for user fees that will be collected from cigar companies in fiscal year 2019, and the grand total has increased to $80 million, up from $68 million …

Reps. Andy Biggs, Warren Davidson and Debbie Lasko are now co-sponsors of a bill that seeks to exempt traditional and handmade cigars from FDA regulations.

The Tampa Bay Times printed an editorial encouraging the Trump administration to exempt premium cigars from FDA regulation.

In a letter addressed to FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, 13 members of Congress expressed concern over the agency’s decision to regulate handmade cigars, as they do not believe it is …

The Texas premium, handmade cigar industry’s lawsuit against the FDA will likely be tried in a Washington D.C. courtroom after a judge denied the industry’s attempt to transfer the lawsuit …