H.R. 3982 Aims to Exempt Cigars from FDA Regulation

[homesteader]

The bill's author has a good point: cigars are different from cigarettes. I would like to hear opinions about a way to include pipe tobacco in this bill. It has bipartisan sponsorship, so there's a good chance it will pass.

"There’s a new legislative push to exclude handcrafted premium cigars from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. H.R. 3982, known as “Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act,” was introduced by Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-FL) and Congressman Bill Posey (R-FL) in the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill is a companion to S. 438, introduced in the U.S. Senate earlier this year by Sen. Marco Rubio [read more here]. H.R. 3982 sets out to exclude handcrafted premium cigars from the same FDA regulations cigarettes and other deemed tobacco products are subject to."

The full article is here: H.R. 3982 Aims to Exempt Cigars from FDA Regulation

 

[sablebrush52]

The cigar industry has been good at playing the Resistance. But they don't want to muddy the waters by including pipe tobacco, since it can be used to make cigarettes, and plenty of RYO have masqueraded as pipe tobacco for tax purposes. It did good for the RYO manufacturers, but screwed pipe tobacco from evading the cigarette equivalency argument.

 

[anotherbob]

pay more for tobacco I think would be the key.

 

[anotherbob]

The cigar industry has been good at playing the Resistance. But they don't want to muddy the waters by including pipe tobacco, since it can be used to make cigarettes, and plenty of RYO have masqueraded as pipe tobacco for tax purposes. It did good for the RYO manufacturers, but screwed the pipe tobacco from evading the cigarette equivalency argument.

I think that's where the problem lies. Those gambler type tobaccos.

 

[Worknman]

The cigar industry has been good at playing the Resistance. But they don't want to muddy the waters by including pipe tobacco, since it can be used to make cigarettes, and plenty of RYO have masqueraded as pipe tobacco for tax purposes. It did good for the RYO manufacturers, but screwed pipe tobacco from evading the cigarette equivalency argument.

The writing was on the wall when the IPCPR became simply the PCA. Basically the pipes got cut out of the acronym.

 

[kcghost]

It would be nice if cigars were treated differently. I smoke enough of them to make a difference to me. Yes, it would be nice if they included pipe tobacco but the RYO crowd screwed the pooch with that one.