NATO Opposes Boston Cigar Regulations

By Thomas A. Briant  | Tobacco E-News (CSPnet.com)

NATO has submitted a set of comments to the Boston Public Health Commission opposing a regulation that would ban the sale of single cigars and those cigars currently sold in packages of less than five. Although the regulation contains an exemption for tobacco stores, the single-cigar ban would still apply to tobacco stores if the wholesale price of a cigar is less than $2 per cigar or the retail price is less than $2.50 per cigar.

This would cause retailers to lose sales of legal cigar products and simply shift consumer purchasing habits to buying cigar products over the Internet or purchasing cigars from retailers located outside of Boston. In either case, retailers located in Boston will be negatively impacted, even though they have complied with all of the laws and regulations for the sale of tobacco products.

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