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Cigar Rights of America (CRA) has been at the vanguard of the fight against the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) efforts to regulate premium cigars under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) of 2009. Those efforts came to a head with the issuance of the FDA’s Deeming Rule in 2016, which brought cigars specifically under the FDA’s regulatory jurisdiction.