Comments on: Stogie News: FDA Regulation Threatens Cigars

By: Stogie Commentary: Have You Contacted Your Congressman?

Stogie Commentary: Have You Contacted Your Congressman? — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:08:55 +0000

[...] If you haven’t already, please join me in writing your Congressman to pass this important bill. You can find more information about how bad FDA regulation would likely be for handmade cigars here. [...]

By: Stogie News: FDA Tobacco Committee Faces Ethics Questions

Stogie News: FDA Tobacco Committee Faces Ethics Questions — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:22 +0000

[...] by the TPSAC would be the likely first step towards regulation towards cigars, which would be extremely damaging for the cigar industry and the choices of cigar [...]

By: Think Of Your Cigar As… « Cuban and Cohiba Cigars – Authentic Cuban Cigars SoloCigars

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:16:21 +0000

[...] a few months later, Obama signed a bill into law that puts tobacco under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Food and Drug [...]

By: Stogie Commentary: Protecting Our Cigars from the FDA

Stogie Commentary: Protecting Our Cigars from the FDA — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:46 +0000

[...] course, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that StogieGuys.com has been warning about FDA regulation the entire time the bill was being considered and being signed into [...]

By: The Survivalist Forum » Blog Archive » A Little Torch of Liberty: Big-government’s War on the Pleasures of Tobacco

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:57:47 +0000

[...] a few months later, Obama signed a bill into law that puts tobacco under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Food and Drug [...]

By: Stogie Commentary: More Industry Consolidation Coming?

Stogie Commentary: More Industry Consolidation Coming? — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:37:12 +0000

[...] plenty of reasons for such consolidation. Larger companies can better adjust to the new tax and regulatory burdens that cigars now face. Combining sales forces and distribution channels can lower costs, [...]

By: Dave Patrick

Dave Patrick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:52:41 +0000

I wish I had known that you guys were at the Famous event. I have been wanting to meet you.

Look me up next. Although, if you made your rounds I'm sure we spoke at briefly.

Dave – John Hay Cigar company

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:59 +0000

This bill is wrong on so many levels. I've read articles stating that "Washington finally takes aim at big tobacco". Who is going to benefit from this legislation? Big tobacco companies that now have a bill that will legally allow them to push their competitors out of the picture. Every tobacco producing company will fund this legislation raising the costs on all tobacco products. It infringes on our personal freedoms, it costs American jobs, and it does little to stop the problem of underage smoking.

By: Audrey Silk

Audrey Silk — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:55:48 +0000

It's comments like #2 and #10 that scare me. YOU can believe with all your heart and soul that cigars and cigarettes are substantially different. But it does not matter what YOU think. It matters what the smoking ban proponents think. And they think it's exactly the same. Smoke is smoke. Here's a little story from just today about New Hampshire relaxing its ban in cigar bars (and good for you I say as a cigarette smoker that aspires to the same) to allow alcohol to be served. This is what the anti-smoking spokesperson had to say about that:

“This is a major step backwards for New Hampshire in public health,” said Beth D’Ovidio, who handles public relations for Breathe New Hampshire. “We view it as the first chip at eroding the legislation that was passed that provided for smoke-free work environments for … bars and restaurants.”

On the health front, D’Ovidio said a single cigar can have the tobacco equivalent of an entire pack of cigarettes, not to mention the impact of secondhand smoke. The state Department of Health and Human Services opposed the bill because of potential exposure to secondhand smoke, and because cigar bars would be sharing building space with other entities, essentially sharing ventilation. Breathe New Hampshire is worried not only about the people smoking cigars but about those who will work in the environment, presumably those serving alcohol, D’Ovidio said.

“Secondhand smoke will escape into abutting properties and that they have been allowing smoking in these facilities already is a weakness in the legislation that passed through before,” D’Ovidio said.

“The notion that smoking a cigar is a hobby, not a habit — it’s still a high-risk behavior,” D’Ovidio said. “In fact, there are even some greater risks with cigars than smoking cigarettes."

Along with more tobacco and all the chemicals that go along with it, secondhand cigar smoke is frequently more potent, and the slow-smoking nature of cigars makes for longer exposure, D’Ovidio said.

“People need to remember, a smoker is getting firsthand and secondhand smoke,” D’Ovidio said.

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They want you cigar smokers as much as they want us cigarette smokers. It does the cigar community a great harm to believe cigar smoking is above it somehow and that cigarette smokers are beneath you somehow. I, for one, resist allowing that common belief to interfere with defending cigar smokers even when the belief aggravates me to no end. Divide and conquer is exactly what the anti-smokers strive for. Don't give in.

By: Chri

Chri — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:42:30 +0000

One key point that is being missed here is the government's move toward full contol of health care. There have already been discussions on limiting care to smokers and those that are overweight as a way to contain cost. This attack is coming from other fronts, not just the FDA. I am an insurance geek, thus I speak with some knowledge on this.