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URGENT: WRITE THE FDA

The FDA is trying to smother the handmade cigar industry. We need your help.
Jun 2, 2017
URGENT: WRITE THE FDA

If you’re a friend of the cigar, now is the time to write Washington. The Food and Drug istration is making it harder and harder for family-owned, handmade cigar companies to produce and sell their products. The new rules are unnecessary and highly political, and they will drive companies out of business, leaving you with fewer choices in your humidor, changing the cigar industry forever.

It needs to stop.

Write the new FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, and President Donald Trump. Let them know how you feel. Tell them handmade cigars deserve an exemption from FDA control. It’s time to deregulate the handmade cigar industry and let this small, artisanal and venerable business continue without government interference.

SAMPLE LETTER
Copy-and-paste this sample letter and let your voice be heard.

I am protesting the FDA’s over-regulation of the handmade cigar industry. Keep this family owned and artisanal industry intact and leave handmade cigars alone.

WRITE NOW:

FDA Commisioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb
Email address: [email protected]

President Trump
information: whitehouse.gov//

Vice President Michael Pence
information: whitehouse.gov//

Click here to read Marvin R. Shanken's letter to FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb.

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