The FDA failed to consider whether premium cigars warranted a different regulatory approach than cigarettes.
And now the state thinks it needs to crack down even more.
You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.
After 18 months of dealing with the FDA, some distillers are regretting making hand sanitizers at all.
Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.
It’s likely to happen any day now.
Distillers have been granted emergency regulatory relief—for now.
Breweries and wineries can still do it, though.
Instead of trusting the science, the FDA will treat adults like children.
The state, one of the last to fully reopen, lifted some capacity limits early. But the service sector was hamstrung during a heat crisis in which it could have helped.
If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem.
Instead of allowing people with chronic medical conditions to get a higher place in line, a pivotal Oregon committee leans into racial justice considerations.
Thanks to coverage at Reason and pushback from the industry, the federal government voided $14,000 fees on do-gooder craft distillers just in time for the new year.
Distilleries just learned that to cap off a brutal year, the FDA is charging them a fee normally reserved for drug manufacturing facilities.
In the face of the greatest challenge in generations, America's chefs, bartenders, and restaurant owners are reinventing their food, their businesses, and themselves.
Feel free to reject the advice of this terrible new book.
Anti-smoking advocacy groups have a long history of exploiting shoddy science for political gain.
The Food and Drug Administration can't ban cigarettes outright. But the agency appears to be planning a workaround.
Corporations, free speech, and why "Donald eres un pendejo."
The market for cigars is about to become a lot less diverse and a lot more boring.
A misguided proposal from the Mexican government threatens the future of agave spirits.
How independent breweries are mooching off state subsidies.
Liquor regulations in the U.S. and EU control how honest makers can be.
Virginia only recently legalized mixing spirits with beer or wine, and some blends are still off limits.
Don't stop hoarding those Cuban cigars just yet.
Tobacco Control Act? More like Marlboro Monopoly Act.
