TELL THE FDA TO STAY OUT OF AMERICA'S HUMIDORS!   I work with a small boutique factory in Costa Rica that has been making cigars for 20 years.  These cigars are sold around the world and the company employs over 80 people and now has its own farms in Ecuador.  The FDA deeming regulations against premium cigars will severely affect this company.  We need your help.  Cigar smokers in the US account for only one-half of 1% of all smokers and we need to be proactive to fight the FDA.  These 3 industry associations have online petitions that you can easily sign.  You only need to put your name and your zip code and it will be sent to Washington and to your local representative in your voting district based upon your zip code.     Please help us fight Big Brother and the "nanny state."                                                                                                                                                                               

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The 2017 efforts to exempt premium cigars from FDA regulation have taken another step in Congress.

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representative Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture passed its FY18 Agriculture Appropriations Bill via a voice, included was language that would exempt premium cigars from regulation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

The language, which has been included in various Agriculture Appropriations bills over the last few years, would prevent FDA from using any of its funding to regulate premium cigars.

Premium cigars would cover most, if not all, cigars you see in your local humidor.  The bill now moves to the full House Appropriations Committee, where the Cigar Association of America expects the measure to be taken up in mid-July. From there, the bill would still need to pass a vote in the full House of Representatives and have similar language pass the Senate before it would head to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.                                                                      http://halfwheel.com/house-subcommittee-passes-agriculture-bill-fda-premium-cigar-exemption/158479