Cigar, Pipe Tobacco Groups Appeal FDA Deeming Rule Challenges To D.C. Circuit

(December 31, 2020, 11:10 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cigar and pipe tobacco industry associations urge the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Dec. 16 appellant brief to strike down provisions of the Food and Drug Administration’s final deeming rule applying to cigars and pipe tobacco as arbitrary and capricious, including substantial equivalence review requirements, the imposition of user fees and the regulation of wooden pipes as components of tobacco products....