Victory Against Regulation

MARVIN R. SHANKEN

Remember the date: August 9, 2023. It’s the day the handmade cigar industry finally won its long, painful and expensive fight against regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It was late in the afternoon on that Wednesday when the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the cigar industry in the case known as Cigar Association of America et al. v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It was the culmination of a court battle waged since 2016. In legal speak Judge Amit P. Mehta fully vacated the FDA’s Deeming Rule as applied to premium cigars. In plain English, he said the FDA had no business trying to regulate the makers of handmade cigars. This is good news for all of us. Our editorial team reached…

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Cigar Aficionado (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023

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