Cigar Groups Say New FDA Manufacturing Rules Will Harm Premium Cigar Makers

Mealey's (April 28, 2023, 3:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two cigar industry organizations filed a notice of supplemental authority in a District of Columbia federal court where they are seeking to “vacate and permanently enjoin” Food and Drug Administration rules regulating premium cigars, writing that “[t]he absence of vacatur is signing up this Court’s docket for” future challenges to the FDA’s newest proposed rule requiring allegedly burdensome new manufacturing standards for tobacco products including premium cigars....