FDA Deeming Rule

The 2016 United States regulation, effective in August of that year, that extended the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco authority to cigars, pipe tobacco, and vapor products. In 2023 a federal district court vacated the rule as applied to premium cigars, a decision upheld on appeal, and subsequent orders have addressed how premium cigars are defined for that exemption.

The rule and the litigation over it have determined for a decade what new premium cigars could legally be introduced in the United States, and the exemption remains a live regulatory question.