Cody Carden
Washington, DC: United States Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Rand Paul (R-KY) joined forces in a bipartisan appeal to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center…
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Washington, DC: On December 18, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) released a five-year Strategic Plan, setting out its current thinking about priorities in tobacco…
Read MoreWashington, DC: While the cigar industry awaits to see whether a federal appeals court will uphold a ruling that mostly prevents FDA from regulating “premium cigars,” a new resolution has been introduced…
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Cigar Rights of America (CRA), a consumer-based public advocacy group committed to safeguarding the interests of premium cigar manufacturers, retailers, and consumers, presents this statement in opposition to a proposal…
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On December 6th, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs published its Fall 2023 Unified Agenda outlining upcoming regulations that federal agencies plan to undertake. The report includes five proposed…
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On Monday, Cigar Rights of America (CRA) met with representatives from the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to discuss the implications of the…
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France: Tobacco manufacturers would be required to deliver to different European countries stocks corresponding to their national consumption. The objective is to reduce tobacco consumption by drying up the cross-border…
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Florida: Continuing the trend of implementing outdoor smoking bans across public spaces, Florida Representative Marie Woodson (D) introduced a measure in the state legislature on November 16th to prohibit smoking…
Read MoreWashington, DC: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (FDA-CTP) was founded in 2009 in order to regulate the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of tobacco products as designated by…
Read MoreUnited Kingdom: Rishi Sunak plans to phase it out by raising the legal age to buy tobacco by one year every year from 2027. It means anyone born after January 1, 2009 —…
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