Senators Voice Support for Cigars

[rdomfoto]

Eight senators wrote to the FDA on the same day public comments were closed regarding new regulations:

[h=2]Senators Voice Support for Cigars[/h]

 

[stukibuilt]

Glad to see our senators here in Florida step up. If Tampa loses the factory it will be the end of cigar city. Not that I smoke what's made there personally, but it's a part of the heritage of the area and should be preserved.

 

[LigaPrivadaFanboy]

Shocked the Hawaiian Senator didn't lobby for vanilla macadamia-infused cigars to get a special exemption. All you see there. LOL.


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"A premium cigar," the letter states, "should be defined as any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent tobacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco mouthpiece, and weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 count. It also must either have a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and be hand-rolled, or have a homogenized tobacco leaf binder and be made in the United States using human hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrapper onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar."

The end of the statement sounds like the only premium cigars are made IN America. Did I read that right?

 

[Argus17]

Shocked the Hawaiian Senator didn't lobby for vanilla macadamia-infused cigars to get a special exemption. All you see there. LOL.


edit:

"A premium cigar," the letter states, "should be defined as any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent tobacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco mouthpiece, and weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 count. It also must either have a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and be hand-rolled, or have a homogenized tobacco leaf binder and be made in the United States using human hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrapper onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar."

The end of the statement sounds like the only premium cigars are made IN America. Did I read that right?

I take the statement as an either/or. Hand rolled with 100% tobacco OR machine made in the USA using hand fed machines (like John Hay cigars in PA).

 

[rdomfoto]

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The end of the statement sounds like the only premium cigars are made IN America. Did I read that right?

I don't think so. The way I read it (and I had to read it a couple of times) is that the "and made in the United States..." portion belongs to the second half of the OR statement.

So:

Any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent tobacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco mouthpiece, and weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 count. Plus

1) ...It also must either have a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and be hand-rolled, OR
2) ...Have a homogenized tobacco leaf binder and be made in the United States using human hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrapper onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar.

I think they added that to include US machine-made cigars.

 

[ChefBoyRG54]

I'm glad the cigar industry is paying the right people to speak up