The Troutman Sanders Tobacco practice will be at the Tobacco Plus Expo Show on January 30-31 in Las Vegas. We will be at the Smokeshop Magazine booth. We look forward to seeing our clients and friends at the show.
For questions and/or comments, please contact Bryan Haynes, at 804.697.1420
A bill has been introduced in Mississippi that would nearly double the fee applicable to non-signatories to the state’s tobacco settlement agreement.
Missouri, the last remaining state in which nonparticipating manufacturers can obtain allocable share releases from their escrow payments, has again introduced legislation to repeal the release mechanism. The bill, Senate Bill 629, was introduced earlier this month.
Widespread attention continues to be focused on the FDA’s announced plan to regulate additional tobacco products, possibly including cigars. With state legislatures beginning their 2013 sessions, many are signaling how they are planning to take matters into their own hands. In Hawaii, a bill designed to “curtail tobacco use among adolescents and young adults by raising tobacco taxes, while not placing the local premium cigar industry at a competitive disadvantage,” and regulating “characterizing flavors,” is in the pipeline.
Several tobacco companies have recently appealed a federal trial court’s decision to uphold two local ordinances that ban certain promotional discounts and severely restrict flavored tobacco products.
A case currently pending before the Idaho Supreme Court could establish new precedent regarding a State’s authority to regulate tribal tobacco sales.
Smokeshop magazine provides a comprehensive calendar of industry events, including the upcoming TPE show this month and the IPCPR show in July. Click here for a PDF version of the calendar. We look forward to seeing you at various events throughout the year.
For questions and/or comments, please contact Bryan …
Bryan Haynes of the Troutman Sanders Tobacco practice was recently quoted in a Law 360 article regarding FDA’s expected regulation of additional tobacco products in 2013.
Twas four nights before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except staffers at the White House. That’s right, at 3 p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2012, the last business day before Christmas, the White House finally released its Unified Agenda and Regulatory Plan, which included coal in the stocking in the form of more regulations for tobacco companies.
On December 18th, 17 states and the manufacturer-signatories to the Master Settlement Agreement announced a settlement of the manufacturers’ claims that the states failed to satisfy their obligations to “diligently enforce” non-signatories’ escrow requirements.
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