Tobacco Company Sues to Block Flavored Cigar Ban

Tobacco Company Sues to Block Flavored Cigar Ban
September 29, 2009

News Summary

The leading maker of clove cigarettes has gone to court in a bid to prevent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from imposing a ban on cigars flavored with cloves, fruit, or other flavorings, the Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 24.

Kretek International is asking the courts to block FDA from imposing a ban on its Djarum clove and flavored cigars. FDA has banned flavored cigarettes and warned manufacturers against seeking to circumvent the ban with similar flavored products, such as mini cigars.

The new FDA tobacco-regulation law allows the agency to regulate cigars if such rules are issued, and FDA officials say the agency also may regulate certain cigars that fall under the broad definition of cigarettes.

COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE:

Posted by maxwood on 30 Sep 09 07:12 PM EDT

The worst thing about any cigar is its obsolete unnecessary large size and the degree of overdose smoking customers are being urged to undertake (though fortunately unlike cigarette, they say they "don't inhale"). If the FDA really cares to do anything about this, how about expressly endorsing the concept of placing a tiny fraction of a cigar in a VAPORIZER along with a bit of clove, fruit or whatever. Admittedly not the total abstinence some are demanding, rather it's a harm-reduction, nicotine-maintenance scheme, which honors the human rights of any adult user to be seen and treated as a "nicotine maintenance patient", for life if need be, rather than as an "addict" to be punished with extreme, unpromising, expensive remedies.

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