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Goals and Tactics of the Anti-Tobacco Groups
The premium cigar and pipe tobacco industries have long been targets of organizations seeking to restrict or eliminate...
CTP’s Response to the Reagan-Udall Foundation Report
The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has responded to the recommendations of an independent expert panel facilitated...
California Introduces Generational Smoking Ban!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Washington, DC – Feb. 15, 2023] The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is calling on all...
California Introduces Generational Smoking Ban!
[Washington, DC – Feb. 15, 2023] The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is calling on all cigar retailers, consumers...
Reagan Udall Foundation Releases Report on CTP Structural and Operational Concerns
[Washington, DC — Dec 20, 2022] The Reagan Udall Foundation (RUF) recently released an Operational Evaluation of...
PCA Presents to Reagan Udall Foundation: Recommends Changes to FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products
[Washington, DC — Oct 24, 2022] Today, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) presented to the Reagan Udall...
PCA’s Commitment to International Engagement
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is committed to defending and promoting premium cigar and pipe tobacco retailers...
A Victory on the Field Deserves to Be Remembered… with a Great Cigar
As we approach the college football rivalry game of Alabama v. Tennessee, it is timely to bring up the tradition of...
California Coalition Calls for Defeat of Prop. 31
In August of 2020 the State of California passed SB 793, prohibiting the sale of all flavored tobacco products and the...
PayPal is a ‘TOS’ Up on Premium Cigar Sales
Private companies putting up barriers is the new frontier for anti-tobacco rules. Big business wants to control what...
PCA Position Statement on Pipe Tobacco
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is committed to defending premium cigars and pipe tobacco from legislative and...
Coalition Calls For Defeat of Prop. 31
In August of 2020 the State of California passed SB 793, prohibiting the sale of all flavored tobacco products and the...
PCA Files Comments Opposing FDA Flavored Cigar Proposed Rule
[Fri, July 29, 2022 — Washington, DC] Today, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) filed public comments opposing...
Deeming Rule Found Arbitrary & Capricious
Today United States District Court Judge Amit Mehta rendered a ruling, as part of the Premium Cigar Association’s...
PCA Joins European Cigar Manufacturers Association in Commenting on the European Commission’s Legislative Framework for Tobacco Control
[Friday, June 17, 2022] Today the Premium Cigar Association submitted a comment to the European Commission...
Oral Arguments: Case Notes
Following oral arguments conducted on May 23rd, 2022 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia...
Clearing the Smoke—What’s Really Behind FDA’s Proposed Flavor Rule
In a country where consumers have to be 21 years or older to even purchase tobacco, how do activists justify more...
Premium Cigar Industry Argues Case Against Deeming Rule
(Washington, DC) Today, representatives from PCA, including President Greg Zimmerman, attended oral arguments in the...
FDA Announces Proposed Flavored Cigar Product Standards Rule
Today, the Food & Drug Administration and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) announced their “Tobacco Product...
Summary of the Proposes Tobacco Product Standard for Characterizing Flavors in Cigars
Why did this happen? Despite a general decrease in tobacco consumption over the past ten years, the FDA has identified...
Let’s Not Candy Coat the Situation
The words “government” and “common sense” are not often used in the same sentence and being the target of legislation...
PCA on the Subject of Responsible Marketing
Our industry’s greatest argument against overregulation is that we do not fall into the scope of concerns levied...
Hearing Preparation Toolkit for PCA Members
The Basics Hearings are a tool used by the state and federal legislatures to engage with the public, specifically with...
New Zealand’s proposed tobacco restrictions might be closer to US shores than you think
The prohibitionist movement in different industries has taken many forms throughout the last 100 years. In 1922, the...