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PCA Goes to Nicaragua: A Look Back at Puro Sabor 2025

In the cigar industry, you are likely to hear the talking point that over 300 hands touch every premium cigar made...

PCA Retailer Member Survey Results (2024)

Note: 133 PCA retailer members surveyed What is your top concern as a premium tobacco retailer? Significant Impact...

Save Time and Money on PCA Travel

A new year is soon upon us. For PCA members it’s time to start planning for this year’s trade show. PCA25 will be held...

Appeals Court Upholds Premium Cigar Exemption

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the case of Cigar Association of America et al....

Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s New Cigar Lounge: A Win for Travelers and the Economy

The Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) has made an exciting announcement — the opening of a new cigar lounge at...

The Wizard of Oz: OZ Family Cigars

How do we gauge success? Is it financial, as in the acquisition of wealth? Is it through relationships such as...

Casablanca Cigar Bar, Other Retailers Dig Out from Hurricane Helene

The devasting impact of Hurricane Helene, which decimated thousands of lives in western North Carolina, didn’t spare...

JM Tobacco: Crafting Affordable Luxury for the Everyday Aficionado

Thank God it wasn’t a tie. Or a watch. Or cologne or even a toolset. No, it’s hard to imagine where Anto Mahroukian,...

Update from the Executive Director: Fall 2024/Winter 2025 Edition

The PCA is under construction. In September, the PCA board of directors and staff hosted their bi-annual meeting in...

50 Years of Quesada Cigars

In Manuel Quesada’s words, “A good cigar is one that gives you pleasure; the one that in every puff gives you the...

New Certain Tobacco Age-of-Sale Requirements Go Into Effect

September 30, 2024, marks the beginning of new certain tobacco age-of-sale requirements. As of this date, retailers...

FDA Issues Final Rule for Tobacco 21

At long last, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has released its Final Rule...

PCA Objects to New Zealand’s Smokefree Environments Bill

[Mon, August 22, 2022 — Washington, DC] Today, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) submitted evidence to be...

Court Blocks FDA Product Approval Requirements for Premium Cigars

In the case of Cigar Association of America, the Premium Cigar Association, and Cigar Rights of America v. United...

Rep. Meuser Hosts Cigar Policy Roundtable

Congressman Dan Meuser (PA-09), Co-Chairman of the Congressional Cigar Caucus, hosted a Cigar Policy Roundtable to...

US Court of Appeals Unanimously Strikes Down Warning Labels

Washington, DC, July 7, 2020 —The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) and Cigar Rights of...

Supreme Court Decision Checks Potential FDA Overreach

The recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Chevron deference has sent shockwaves through the regulatory world, with...

Generational Bans: A Prohibition That’s Bigger Than Tobacco

First, it was New Zealand, saying, “Hey, let’s ban access to a perfectly legal product, in a manner that if you’re...

Continuing the Legacy of the Premium Cigar Association

For 91 years, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) has consistently spearheaded the industry’s growth and well-being....

How Bad Ideas Spread: Minneapolis, Minnesota Sets A Bad Precedent

Over the course of the last week, it has taken a moment to digest yet another bad national precedent by the...

PCA Applauds FDA’s Withdrawl of Flavored Cigar Ban

The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) commends the recent decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw...

Global Trade Alert

[Update – October 3, 2024] Joint Statement Regarding Master Contract: “The International Longshoremen’s Association...

New Certain Tobacco Age-of-Sale Requirements Go Into Effect

September 30, 2024, marks the beginning of new certain tobacco age-of-sale requirements. As of this date, retailers...

Court Blocks FDA Product Approval Requirements for Premium Cigars

In the case of Cigar Association of America, the Premium Cigar Association, and Cigar Rights of America v. United...

US Court of Appeals Unanimously Strikes Down Warning Labels

Washington, DC, July 7, 2020 —The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) and Cigar Rights of...

2023 Premium Cigar Association Year in Review

This past year was another terrific year in which we were able to utilize the momentum of the tremendous 2022 to...

PCA Leadership: Thank you for Supporting Victory Against the FDA

Last week we have achieved something that many thought we never could: VICTORY over the deeming rule and the FDA’s...

The FDA’s Final Deeming Rule is Vacated: What Does That Mean?

“The FDA’s Final Deeming Rule is vacated insofar as it applies to premium cigars.” But what does that mean? The given...

PCA Appeals to the White House on UPS and Teamsters Negotiations

The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) has joined over 200 organizations in signing a letter to the White House that...

Government Surveillance Center to Monitor Tobacco Industry

The recent establishment of the Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST), funded by the FDA and the National...

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