Cigar Association Urges OMB to Reject FDA’s Proposed Flavored Cigar Ban
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The Cigar Association of America (CAA) said that it asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during a November 6 meeting to withdraw the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Flavored Cigar Product Standard(FCPS) banning flavors in cigars, which it said would cost the industry nearly $4 billionin salesup to 47 percent of industry salesand destroy 16,000 jobs. CAA president David Ozgo stated, We presented evidence to OMB that FDAsproposed flavored cigar ban dramatically fails to meet the criteria necessary for such a ban under the Tobacco Control Act, offering little or no public health benefit while having a devastating economic impact on the industry.
Ozgo noted, FDA claims the product standard will reduce youth usage of cigars and that prohibiting flavored cigars will...