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Tobacco Tax Equity Stripped from the Build Back Better Act
Tobacco Tax Equity has been a top priority by anti-tobacco activists seeking to price informed adult consumers out of...
Tell Congress NO To Tobacco Tax Hikes!
The House Ways & Means Democratic staff has begun circulating a list of priorities and revenue raisers for the...
Top 20 Premium Cigar Policy Issues Briefs
Federal Tax – Large Cigar/Small Cigar/Pipe Tobacco Excise Tobacco excise is a significant source of revenue for the...
The Trojan Horse of Youth Access
This year during legislative sessions in Montana and North Dakota, members introduced bills to permit cigar bars or...
FDA Releases Final SE and PMTA Rules
Last night, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) released the Final...
Educating Policymakers on The Nuances of Premium Cigars
From Capitol Hill to State Legislatures to the Food & Drug Administration, 2020 was a monumental year for...
Veiled State Threats to Premium Tobacco
Tobacco control policy has had dramatic shifts over the past few years and these shifts have exacerbated over recent...
Cash Strapped States and The Politics of Distraction…Prepare Now, to Fight off 2021 Threats
By: Glynn Loope, Executive Director, Cigar Rights of America & Josh Habursky, Director of Government Affairs,...
PCA Fact Sheet: California Senate Bill No. 793 (Flavored Tobacco Products)
On August 28, California’s governor signed into law Senate Bill No. 793, which generally prohibits California...
Mehta Decision Explained
On Wednesday, August 19th, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the District Court for the District of Columbia rendered his...
Characterizing Flavors Position Paper
Given recent trends by anti-tobacco groups to utilize local ordinances and state legislation to prohibit flavored...
FDA Announces Potential Program for Premium Cigar Manufacturers to Request Deferral of Filing Substantial Equivalence Reports
In court filings last night, the FDA announced a potential new program relating to the requirement that premium cigar...
PCA Supports Unnecessary Agency Regulations Reduction Act
The Premium Cigar Association would like to thank Senator Rick Scott (FL) for the introduction of the Unnecessary...
California Health Committee: Amend SB 793
Premium Cigars and pipe tobacco are being threatened by a flavored vape bill in California. The bill is not intended...
Colorado HB 1001 on Nicotine Product Regulation Passes Legislature
Specifically, this measure raises the minimum age of a person to whom cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine...
27 States + DC Enact Laws Related to Raising Smoking Age to 21
Following the Federal Age of Tobacco Purchase increase from 18 to 21 that occurred in December of last year, 27 states...
Small Business Recovery Over Regulation
Across the country, COVID-19 has decimated small businesses in nearly every industry —limiting sales, requiring new...
Oppose Tax Hikes to Premium Cigars in Tennessee!
The Tennessee General Assembly is considering two identical bills that would increase taxes on premium cigars in...
Fourth Circuit Appeals Dismissed
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 (Washington, DC)—Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling on...
Fighting the Bigger Smaller Battles
Alex Harding, Kristoff Cigars As the cigar industry copes with the effects of nationwide, state mandated shutdowns, it...
FDA’s Compliance Policy for Deemed Tobacco Products
Over the past several weeks, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) has received numerous questions from members about...
MARYLAND: Your Urgent Participation Needed to Save Pipe Tobacco!
Due to COVID-19 the Maryland General Assembly has barred non-essential staff from Maryland General Assembly buildings....
Hawaii: Protect Premium Tobacconists from Statewide Tobacco Ban!
Urge Legislature to Protect Tobacconists from Statewide Tobacco Ban Senate Bill 2904 and House Bill 2348 ban all...
URGENT: Contact Vermont Elected Officials to OPPOSE Tobacco Ban!
Senate Bill 288, scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare tomorrow, could ban all tobacco...