by PCA | May 22, 2024 | Advocacy
As you sit reading this, hopefully comfortably enjoying a cigar, know that a powerful elite group has gathered and decided how you are to live your life. You didn’t elect them and likely don’t know them, but they think they are better than you, smarter than...
by PCA | May 6, 2024 | Advocacy, Regulations
Over the course of the last week, it has taken a moment to digest yet another bad national precedent by the forces of tobacco control. On the heels of communities in Massachusetts adopting bans on the sale of all tobacco products or imposing “generational...
by PCA | Apr 12, 2024 | Advocacy
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) welcomes Richard Chalkey as its new Director of Coalitions and Policy. Richard brings over a decade of professional experience from work in government and the private sector. “The Premium Cigar Association has...
by PCA | Mar 15, 2024 | Advocacy, Regulations
The PCA is an organization that has been one constant all of my years in this business. I have been in this industry so long that I sometimes catch myself calling it the RTDA! I have seen its name go from “RTDA” to “IPCPR” to its current “PCA.” At first, I always...
by PCA | Mar 4, 2024 | Advocacy, Regulations
Last week, a member of the Colorado state senate sought tax relief for the state’s small business tobacconists and their customers. Although the measure came up a couple of votes short, the case was made as never before. The Colorado Senate Finance Committee...
by PCA | Feb 1, 2024 | Advocacy, Regulations
On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed its appealing Judge Amit Mehta’s orders holding the FDA’s decision to regulate premium cigars arbitrary and capricious and vacating it. The appeal is presented to the court of appeals in...
