Interesting article on Halfwheel.com. As the lawsuit brought by three cigar trade groups against the FDA's regulation of cigars enters its ninth year, the legal case has entered a new chapter: what is a premium cigar? There is no established definition of "premium cigar." Instead, there's a working definition that the FDA created outside of its legally required rulemaking processes as part of a different lawsuit.
The CAA has proposed modifying the definition to a five-point standard:
is wrapped in whole tobacco leaf;
contains a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder;
made by manually combining the wrapper, filler, and binder;
has no filter, tip, or non-tobacco mouthpiece and is capped by hand; and
weighs more than 6 pounds per 1,000 units.
https://halfwheel.com/caa-presents-its-alternate-definition-of-premium-cigar-for-court/452246/
