There are less than a dozen hours of the year—the year—remaining. As I’ve done at this point of each year for over a decade, it’s...Read More

Javier Estades has ended has term as the chairman of the Cigar Association of America (CAA), one of the main cigar lobbying groups. Estades—whose day...Read More

The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia has vacated FDA’s warning label requirements for cigars and pipe tobacco. If that sounds familiar, it’s...Read More

Last month, California passed a ban on flavored tobacco that will prohibit the sale of most flavored tobacco products in the state. As is this...Read More

A flavored tobacco ban has been unanimously approved by the California Assembly, advancing the legislation and setting up negotiations between the Assembly and Senate to...Read More

The cigar industry and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration will meet in virtual federal court tomorrow afternoon to discuss FDA’s plans to defer premium...Read More

Attorneys for the cigar industry and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) were back in federal court to present arguments about whether part or...Read More

Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) could not require...Read More

In a move that could end up being a mixed bag for premium cigar smokers, a federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Food...Read More

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is not planning on delaying the current Sept. 9, 2020 deadline by which cigar companies will have to...Read More

A new motion has been filed in one of the lawsuits related to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of cigars, this time...Read More