The Importance of a Definition: Why Congress Must Define Premium Cigars

By Cody Carden | June 13, 2024

Washington, DC: Precise language is always crucial for appropriate and effective regulation. Given the significant disparities which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) and other anti-tobacco groups acknowledge between premium cigars and other types of tobacco products (historically premium cigar have been considered the lowest enforcement priority in the FDA’s own risk-categorization schema) the absence of a unified federal definition for “premium cigars” presents a glaring oversight.

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