BLOOMBERG Law: CAA Comments on White House Delay Into 2024 of Flavored Cigar Ban

As you might have heard, the Biden Administration has decided to delay into next year a final decision on whether to issue a rule to ban characterizing flavors in cigars. FDA now has a target date of March 2024 for release of the flavored cigar ban. (This is not a deadline and can change.) The decision came in conjunction with a similar decision on a separate rule on menthol cigarettes.

According to the attached Bloomberg Law article: “The cigar industry has been lobbying against the flavored cigar ban, meeting with the White House, and asking it withdraw the rule. ‘This gives OMB more time to review the research and realize why neither the science nor economics support a ban on Flavored Cigars,’ said David Ozgo, president of the Cigar Association of America, in a statement.”

The case against a proposed flavored cigar ban is overwhelming, as CAA made clear to OMB when it was the first group to meet with that office.

“The more time we have to present the facts to regulators and legislators the more likely they are to realize a flavored cigar ban is a solution in search of a problem,” Ozgo said today.