-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama’s Food and Drug Administration is targeting your cigars, America, and if you are a cigar lover you’d better pay attention because if Obama gets his way costs will soar.
The USFDA is proposing a whole slew of new regulations changing the way the government treats cigars, one if which is to outlaw cigar sales over the Internet.
There are some other onerous and downright absurd regulations being proposed, too.
In one case, Obama plans to make it illegal to have walk-in humidors at your local cigar shop.
Another, extremely costly regulation would force cigar importers to submit tobacco mixtures and cigar samples to the FDA for testing. This sort of testing requirements would cost the cigar importing and manufacturing industry billions per year and would make your costs soar.
Obama also plans to restrict cigar advertising, and ban or severley restrict the sale of flavored tobaccos.
Currently both the House and the Senate are considering legislation to put a stop to the FDA’s power grab.
In the House of Representatives, Republicans have submitted House Resolution 792, introduced by Florida Rep. Bill Posey. This one is currently in the House Subcommittee on Health.
Senator Bill Nelson introduced Senate Bill 772 which is also still in committee–the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Both bills essentially exempt cigars from FDA regulation.
But, folks, if these fail and Obama’s power grab succeeds, it will be yet another freedom lost to this power mad President and his nanny state octopus.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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