FDA’s Proposed Flavored Cigar, Menthol Cigarette Bans Clear OMB
FDA’s expected plans to ban flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes could be announced as early as this week.
Michele Mital to Become Acting Director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products
Mital, FDA’s current deputy director, replaces Mitch Zeller, the longtime director of CTP, who is retiring next month.
Cigar Trade Groups, FDA Due Back in Court on May 4, 2022
Attorneys for the cigar industry and FDA will be back in court in early May to argue about whether or not the agency properly followed rules when choosing to regulate all cigars the same way. If the cigar industry is victorious, the ramifications could be as large as throwing out the FDA regulations for “premium cigars.”
11 Things: NASEM’s “Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects”
You didn’t want to read that 526-page FDA-commissioned report about premium cigars? Would you like to read 4,349 words of what I think about it?
National Academy of Sciences Releases Report on Premium Cigars
The much-anticipated NASEM report on premium cigars is out.
While FDA is not bound to adhere to the report’s findings, it does provide some insight as to what the future of premium cigar regulation might look like in the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences Releasing Report on Premium Cigars Next Week
Next Thursday, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will release its much anticipated report on premium cigars, which will set the stage…
Weekly News (Feb. 21, 2022)
Cigar News 20 Acre Farm Belicoso Heading to Corona Cigar Co. Adventura Cigars Announces Distribution Agreement with The Leaf Master Tobacco Trading Company, LLC for…
Dr. Robert Califf Confirmed as New FDA Head
Dr. Robert Califf is once again the commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). By a vote of 50-46, Califf was confirmed by…
Califf’s Confirmation as New FDA Head Passes Key Hurdle
Dr. Robert Califf will likely be confirmed as the next commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) by midday Tuesday. On Monday night,…
Appeals Court Denies Swisher’s Request for Injunction Against FDA’s Regulations
Swisher, one of the world’s largest cigar companies, lost an appeal seeking an injunction against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s deeming regulations regarding the…
FDA: Apply to be the New Head of Center for Tobacco Products
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has begun accepting applications for those interested in becoming the agency’s new director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products…
