FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Warning Labels for Cigars in Small Packages

The Food and Drug Administration announced the release (here) of a new draft guidance document (here) on warning statements for small-packaged cigars. The draft guidance is intended for manufacturers, packagers, sellers, distributors and importers of cigars in packaging that is too small or otherwise unable to accommodate a label with sufficient space to bear required warning statements. According to the draft guidance, “FDA does not intend to take enforcement action with respect to cigars that do not comply with the size and placement requirements in the regulation when the information and specifications required under the regulation appear on the carton or other outer container or wrapper that could accommodate the required warning statements, or on a tag otherwise firmly and permanently affixed to the cigar package.”