Judge Again Vacates FDA Rules For Premium Cigars, Bars Flavors From Category

( April 17, 2026, 2:11 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — On remand from the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a D.C. federal judge again vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s rule for premium cigars, adopting the same definition of such products that the court previously adopted and rejecting one cigar advocacy group’s arguments for amending the definition to include flavored cigars as unsupported by the evidence....